Jan 30 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Although not as central to the biblical narrative as areas like the Galilee or the Judean Highlands, the Negev Desert was nevertheless a region of […]
Sep 21 Blog
By: Parker Blackwell
What do a Judahite scribe, a Roman-era Greek historian, and a 17th-century explorer all have in common? Each holds a piece of the puzzle to […]
May 21 Blog
While carrying out salvage excavations in the city of Rahat in the northern Negev desert, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) came across something […]
Feb 7 Blog
At the crossroads of ancient trade routes running through the Negev Desert, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a complex of mysterious tombs […]
Oct 3 Blog
Despite King David’s prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little archaeological evidence has been directly linked to the early years of the Kingdom of Judah. As a result, some scholars have argued that Judah only became a developed polity in the ninth or even eighth century B.C.E. A 2021 study, however, seeks to refute this idea based on the findings of an extensive regional archaeological project in the Judean foothills, the very region where the Bible says David’s kingdom was born.
Jan 16 Blog
While you won’t find wild ostriches in Israel today, in ancient times an ostrich egg breakfast would not have been that out of place. Indeed, […]
Sep 28 Blog
By: Dan Pioske
In Book 8 of the Periegesis, written by the ancient Greek historian Pausanias, we come across an extended description of the city of Megalopolis located […]
Sep 19 Blog
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a remarkable rural estate in the Negev Desert, dating to the eighth-ninth […]
Jun 24 Blog
Excavations near the town of Rahat in the Negev Desert shed new light on the transition from the Byzantine to Islamic periods in the southern […]
Feb 11 Blog
By: Oded Borowski
Fortifications in the Biblical World What distinguished an ancient village or town from a city? One thing, perhaps the most important, was fortifications. […]
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