Dec 2 Blog
By: Hershel Shanks
In BAR, Hershel Shanks examines a recent article published by archaeologist Amihai Mazar. Mazar contends that while the Biblical narratives were written hundreds of years after the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon, they “retain memories of reality.”
Jun 12 Blog
By: Ellen White
The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot were worship sites that usually contained an altar.
Sep 12 Blog
By: BAS Staff
Researchers announced their belief that they may have uncovered the biblical town of Ziklag. Located between Kiryat Gat and Lachish in southern Israel, Khirbet a-Ra‘i […]
May 12 Blog
By: Marek Dospěl
Pigs weren’t part of the Israelite diet. Therefore if you are excavating and find lots of pig bones at your site, it can’t be Israelite—or can it? A new survey brings this conventional wisdom into question with surprising results.
Mar 29 Blog
By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
What do Iron Age altars tell us about Biblical sacrifices and worship in ancient Israelite religion?
Jul 30 Blog
As covered in recent articles by Ha’aretz and another by The Times of Israel, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of unusually large stone fortifications beneath the […]
Jul 23 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
Over the past few years, excavations at Tell es-Safi have exposed some remarkable cultic discoveries, including a horned altar.
Dec 4 Blog
Aren Maeir is offering a MOOC titled “Biblical Archaeology: The Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Judah” online on the EdX platform.
Jul 7 Blog
By: Robin Ngo
The northern Sea Peoples, according to BAR author Ephraim Stern, are known to us not by name in the Bible but from Egyptian sources—and from archaeology.
Jun 17 Blog
By: Megan Sauter
The first and only Philistine cemetery ever discovered was found outside the walls of ancient Ashkelon.
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