Aug 10 Blog
By: Trevor Bryce
In the latter part of the second millennium B.C., the Hittite empire was a Near Eastern superpower. Then, suddenly, the empire collapsed and Hattusa was invaded and destroyed.
Nov 14 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
Megiddo’s Great Temple is a structure that, according to its excavators, “has proven to be the most monumental single edifice so far uncovered in the EB I Levant and ranks among the largest structures of its time in the Near East.”
Jun 28 Blog
What caused the Bronze Age collapse? A study of pollen grains in sediment cores beneath the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea provides a different view of the Bronze Age collapse.
Oct 20 Blog
By: Ellen White
What does the ancient Aegean world in the west have to do with the Biblical world in the east? Quite a lot, according to Aegean archaeology specialist Louise Hitchcock.
Sep 21 Blog
By: Robin Ngo
Archaeologists excavating in the City of David may have found the fortress that Seleucid King Antiochus constructed following his conquest of Jerusalem around 167 B.C.E.
Oct 31 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
In this illuminating lecture, BAR Editor Robert R. Cargill will show you how heaven and hell came to exist so prominently in Jewish and Christian literature.
Aug 15 Blog
Jennie Ebeling reviews Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology by Eric H. Cline.
Jun 5 Blog
Over 100 years of excavations on Crete have exposed elegant Minoan frescoes that once adorned the walls of the island’s Bronze Age palaces. This distinctively colorful Aegean art style flourished in the Middle Bronze Age (1750-1550 B.C.).
Apr 30 Blog
By: Samuel DeWitt Pfister
In 2016, team members of the Megiddo Expedition digging at the location of Biblical Armageddon uncovered a lavish tomb adjacent to a monumental Middle Bronze Age palace.
Feb 22 Blog
Eric H. Cline reviews The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman.
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