Jun 5 Blog
By: BAS Staff
The black basalt ruins of the Iron Age temple discovered at ’Ain Dara in northern Syria offer the closest known parallel to the Temple of King Solomon in the Bible.
Feb 2 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
From Solomon’s Temple to the Jesus Boat, the Biblical world was built of cedar.
Sep 29 Blog
By: Jonathan Laden
It has already been established that Columbus was not the first European to lead an expedition sailing to the “New World,” across the vast Atlantic […]
Oct 12 Blog
By: Robin Ngo
Maritime archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest shipwreck found thus far in the central Mediterranean.
Jul 7 Blog
The northern Sea Peoples, according to BAR author Ephraim Stern, are known to us not by name in the Bible but from Egyptian sources—and from archaeology.
Sep 2 Blog
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?
May 4 Blog
Birdwatcher Alexander Ternopolsky spotted a rare Egyptian scarab seal at the archaeological site of Tel Dor on Israel’s Carmel Coast.
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