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 The post School Trip Results in Chance ...
Archaeology tells us a lot about the Hittites—and the Neo-Hittites too. But it’s hard to reconcile this with the Hittites of the Bible. The post Who Were the Hittites? appeared first on Bi...
Archaeologist Hillel Geva says that population estimates for ancient Jerusalem are too high. His new estimates begin with people living on no more than a dozen acres. The post Ancient Jerusalem...
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The Pax Romana, or “Roman Peace,” is what many often term the Roman Empire’s unprecedented period of peace and economic prosperity between 27 BCE and The post The Pax Romana and...
I have a problem with Aaron, number two in the great and glorious epic that recounts the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. He is a man of peace. He succeeds at everything. Ev...
“Alternative facts” and “fake news” are not just a contemporary phenomenon. On occasion ancient writers similarly tried to spin their version of the truth. One such claim was that Roman e...
Ongoing excavations at the Italian site of Pompeii recently revealed a spectacular dining hall with elegant black walls, decorated with beautiful frescoes featuring mythological scenes The pos...
10 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem houses one of the world’s most important collections of Biblical artifacts. The post 10 Great Biblical Artifacts at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem appea...
The leading lady of the apocryphal work the Acts of Thecla may not be a well-known figure today, but nearly every early Christian knew her name. The post Who Was Thecla? appeared first on Bibl...
It was the last day of the 2020 excavation season for the archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovering the site of Horbat Raqiq The post Prehistoric Ivory Jar Found Ne...
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