Dec 30 Blog
By: Megan Sauter
What was the population of Jerusalem in Jesus’ time? Much as today, Jerusalem was a diverse city and pilgrimage center in the first century C.E. […]
Sep 24 Blog
By: Marek Dospěl
The biblical command to appear before God on the three major festivals every year (Deuteronomy 16:16) meant that Jerusalem received thousands of pilgrims at Passover […]
Aug 20 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Excavations of Jerusalem’s Second Temple drainage channel have revealed fascinating details about the last decades of the flourishing city before its destruction by the Romans […]
Aug 15 Blog
Does this seal impression, discovered during the Temple Mount Sifting Project, record the name of a biblical figure? The small seal impression, affixed to a […]
Jun 16 Blog
Constructed in the late Second Temple period (first century BCE–first century CE), the Cave of Salome is a massive burial estate among the sprawling hills […]
Sep 4 Blog
During the late Second Temple period, during the time of the Herodian dynasty and Jesus of Nazareth, Jerusalem boasted one of the world’s largest and […]
Jul 26 Blog
By: BAS Staff
The mystery of the lost treasures of the Jerusalem Temple keeps the debate alive about their possible whereabouts. Were they destroyed long ago, or might […]
May 29 Blog
During a salvage excavation of a 19th-century excavation tunnel underneath the City of David, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a fragmentary inscription […]
By: Parker Blackwell
Historians and archaeologists alike are fascinated with the events surrounding the First Jewish Revolt, which culminated with the Roman general Titus storming Jerusalem and sacking […]
Aug 3 Blog
By: John Drummond
Who was Ezra? Old Testament texts mention him, and a biblical book bears his name, but Erza remains a mysterious figure to most. While the […]
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