excavations

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

As the calendar turns to a new year, we at the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) take part in one of our favorite holiday traditions, the […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Did this cathedral in the Galilee play an exceptionally large role in the daily practice of baptisms during the Byzantine period (c. 324–634 CE)? According […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Have you ever wanted to take part in an archaeological dig, but did not know where to begin? Are you unsure about what you would […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Every year, scores of excavations take place around the Holy Land, many of which rely in large part on volunteers just like you! While reading […]

By: Matthew Burden

It’s not everyone’s idea of fun to do unpaid manual labor in the sweltering heat of an Israeli summer. But for those who know the […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

 Hear from volunteers and students excavating Tel Azekah in this exclusive video. This is the third post in an exclusive Bible History Daily series […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Were Bronze Age Canaanites on drugs? Apparently so. To be fair, drug use across the ancient world was much more common than one might think, […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

 This is the second post in an exclusive Bible History Daily series on excavating in the Bible lands. Tel Shimron is one of the […]

By: Aren M. Maeir

One of Hershel Shanks’s (z”l) contributions to archaeology, and that as a non-archaeologist, was to stand up more than 25 years ago and bravely call […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

In an exciting discovery, excavators from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) came across an ancient farmstead frozen in time, its remains left largely untouched for […]