Jul 16 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
“Since its inception, biblical archaeology has been especially concerned with dating the sites, buildings, artifacts, and written records uncovered through excavation.” Thus writes Yoav Vaknin […]
Mar 9 Blog
By: Andrea Nicolotti
Today many consider the Shroud of Turin—the alleged burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth—to be the most important relic of Christianity.1 It is a linen […]
Jan 5 Blog
Inscribed bricks are found throughout ancient Mesopotamia, where they were used for millennia to mark the monumental constructions of kings and officials. Now, they may […]
Sep 16 Blog
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), an incredibly rare papyrus with Paleo-Hebrew text dating to the time of the First Temple has been recovered […]
May 6 Blog
One of the most powerful tools in the modern archaeologist’s toolkit is radiocarbon dating, but what is radiocarbon dating in the first place? In short, […]
Nov 19 Blog
Matthew Adams, who heads the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, began digging at the famous archaeological site of Megiddo in 1998 while […]
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