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Feb 10 Blog

Solving the Enigma of Petra and the Nabataeans

Who were the Nabataeans, the industrious Arab people who built the city of Petra and its towering rock-cut monuments over 2,000 years ago?

Petra’s famous Khazneh. Courtesy Nathan Steinmeyer, BAS

Jan 8 Blog

OnSite: Petra

By: Nathan Steinmeyer & Glenn Corbett

Tucked away in the sandstone cliffs of southern Jordan sits a wonder of the ancient world: Petra of the Nabateans. Whether it is the stunning […]

1,600-year-old lamp found at Metzad Tzafir in the area known as the Scorpions’ Ascent. Yoli Schwartz, IAA

Nov 24 Blog

School Trip Results in Chance Find

By: Clinton J. Moyer

While on a field trip to the Scorpions’ Ascent in southern Israel, a 16-year-old high school student happened upon a fortuitous discovery: a small oil […]

Jul 1 Blog

Jewish Worship, Pagan Symbols

By: Walter Zanger

What are zodiac mosaics doing in ancient synagogues in Israel?

Feb 11 Blog

The Apostle Paul in Arabia

By: Megan Sauter

The New Testament recounts many episodes from the apostle Paul’s life. Yet it provides scant details about his visit to Arabia. In his letter to […]

Feb 9 Blog

30 People in the New Testament Confirmed

By: Lawrence Mykytiuk

Archaeology has confirmed 53 people from the Hebrew Bible. What about the New Testament? In BAR, Lawrence Mykytiuk examines the political figures in the New Testament who can be identified in the archaeological record and by extra-Biblical writings.

Jan 30 Blog

The Edomite Stronghold of Sela

By: Glenn J. Corbett

King Amaziah of Judah (c. 801–783 B.C.E.), after having slain nearly 10,000 Edomites in battle near the southern end of the Dead Sea, is said to have thrown another 10,000 captives from the top of nearby Sela.

Oct 26 Blog

Site-Seeing: Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions

By: Glenn J. Corbett

A new program led by the American Center of Oriental Research is, for the first time, allowing visitors to go beyond Petra’s monuments to actually discover and experience its past and present.

Oct 18 Blog

New Tomb Found at Petra

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Petra, the dazzling, 2,000-year-old Nabatean city in southern Jordan, has not given up all her secrets quite yet, it seems. Recent excavations revealed a previously unknown […]

Apr 17 Blog

Submerged Nabatean Temple Found

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A team of marine archaeologists working off the coast of Italy has identified a submerged Nabatean temple dating to the early first century CE, according […]

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