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Nov 3 Blog

What Were the Crusades and How Did They Impact Jerusalem?

Some of the most famous churches in Jerusalem were built during the Christian Crusades by Crusaders wishing to memorialize sites they believed to have great Christian significance.

Jan 18 Blog

Virtually Explore Jesus’ Tomb at the National Geographic Museum

By: Samuel Pfister

3-D technology brings Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to life in the National Geographic Museum exhibit Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience.

Sep 14 Blog

Site-Seeing: Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem

By: Jonathan Klawans

Every visitor to Jerusalem has seen David’s Tower. Scholar Jonathan Klawans recommends venturing inside the magnificent complex.

Nov 1 Blog

Ancient Roman Theater Exposed Under Jerusalem’s Western Wall

By: Samuel Pfister

An Israel Antiquities Authority excavation underneath Wilson’s Arch of Jerusalem’s Western Wall uncovered a Roman-era theater more than 1,700 years old.

Oct 30 Blog

The Terra Sancta Museum: A New Stop on the Via Dolorosa

By: Megan Sauter

The Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem’s Old City sits on the Via Dolorosa (“Way of Sorrow”), the path, according to tradition, that Jesus walked before his crucifixion. Three new wings in the museum are being unveiled to the public for the first time.

Sep 2 Blog

Herod’s Temple Mount Revealed in Al-Aqsa Mosque Restoration

By: Noah Wiener

As a result of earthquakes, Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount had to be dismantled and reconstructed in the 1930s and 1940s. Massive Cedar of Lebanon and cypress beams were reused, and others were simply removed. Some of these beams are significantly older than the mosque itself. Were these timbers from Al-Aqsa once part of Herod’s Temple Mount architecture?

Nov 1 eBook

Jerusalem Archaeology: Exposing the Biblical City

By: BAS Admin

Jerusalem lies at the heart of Biblical archaeology. Download an eBook featuring BAR articles to learn the results of some of the city’s most groundbreaking excavations.

Jan 16 Blog

Early Jewish Writings Reveal History of Jerusalem

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The famous Theodotus inscription, which commemorates the building of a first-century B.C.E. synagogue, is one of hundreds of early Jewish writings now being published that document the ancient history of Jerusalem.

Jun 8 Blog

The Value of Relics and Biblical Artifacts Found in Israel

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

To many professional archaeologists, “relic” is a dirty word. Biblical artifacts found to have a direct connection to a specific person or story in the Bible are sometimes denigrated as being without archaeological value. These Biblical artifacts are brushed aside in favor of more important archaeological discoveries that shed light on ancient social structures or the vast history of a people.

Mar 21 Blog

City of David

By: Reviewed by Jane Cahill West

Ahron Horovitz’s book on the City of David, reviewed here by Jane Cahill West, covers Jerusalem history with lavish illustrations and summaries of archaeological debates about ancient Jerusalem history.

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