08/28 | King Omri of Israel selected Samaria as his capital and built an elaborate palace there in the ninth century B.C.E. What did this palace look like, and was it destroyed Read more…
Posted in Biblical Archaeology Sites.
11/08 | Few modern Biblical archaeology discoveries have attracted as much attention as the Tel Dan inscription—writing on a ninth-century B.C. stone slab (or stela) that furnished the first historical evidence of Read more…
Posted in Artifacts and the Bible, Biblical Artifacts, Inscriptions.
02/13 | For the first time, grape seeds dating to the Byzantine period have been discovered in the Negev desert. Read more…
Posted in Daily Life and Practice, News.
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Learn about the Hebrew Bible in a free course of 25 video lectures by Harvard professor Shaye Cohen.
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The article “True Colors: Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” by Steven Fine, Peter J. Schertz and Donald H. Sanders in the May/June 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review describes digital scanning conducted on the famed Roman triumphal arch. Watch an exclusive video of the authors’ groundbreaking work.
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For more than a thousand years, the Jews of Cairo would preserve every piece of writing that contained Bible verses or references to God. Some of these treasured scraps are on display in the exhibit Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo at the Cambridge University Library.
Enjoy book reviews by top scholars on wide-ranging topics in religion, archaeology and Biblical studies.
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Oliver D. Hoover reviews "Reign and Religion in Palestine: The Use of Sacred Iconography in Jewish Coinage" by Anne Lykke.
