May 6 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
For much of the first millennium BCE, the Carthaginian merchant empire dominated large swaths of the Mediterranean. But who were the Carthaginians? Carthage, located near […]
Jul 2 Blog
By: Clinton J. Moyer
The Phoenicians were the maritime traders par excellence during the Iron Age. By the late ninth century BCE, they had ventured from their home cities […]
Jun 20 Blog
While surveying the floor of the Mediterranean 55 miles off Israel’s coast, the international energy company Energean made a startling find: the oldest deep-sea shipwreck […]
Nov 10 Blog
A diver off the northeastern coast of Sardinia discovered one of the largest caches of Roman coins ever found. According to a press release by […]
Jul 31 Blog
How did a Crusader sword end up in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel? Was it an accident or the result of some […]
Jun 6 Blog
For more than six centuries, the ancient spice trade route passed through much of the Arabian Peninsula and beyond. Centered on the Nabatean city of […]
Jul 26 Blog
By: Joseph L. Rife
A Walk to Caesarea: A Historical-Archaeological Perspective By Joseph Patrich (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 2018), xii + 174 pp., 193 ill. […]
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