5+ hour, 37+ min ago  (84+ words) On today's program, Dr. Van Huss explains the three areas of excavation, including further indication that an emerging monumental structure may indeed be the biblical tabernacle. She also discusses an extracurricular excavation at Khirbet er-Rafid and how the war situation…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (341+ words) Renewed excavations of the Amman Citadel in Jordan, which began in spring 2024, have uncovered three stone female heads at the lower terrace, paralleling similar finds from the 1960s by Fawzi Zayadine of the Jordan Department of Antiquities. The 20242025 excavations were led…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (483+ words) Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology The Attack on the British Museum and Biblical Archaeology "Ancient Israel and Judah" are now such controversial topics that you cannot safely host a talk about them in central London. This was the title of…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (222+ words) Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology New Archaeological Evidence of King Hezekiah's Religious Reform "The historicity of Hezekiah's reforms is a hotly debated topic, and as the historical credibility of the biblical texts gradually eroded, so the reliance on archaeological data…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (115+ words) Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology Discovering the Seal Impressions of the Prophet Jeremiah's Captors Set during the turbulent final decades leading up to the sacking and destruction of Jerusalem, the book of Jeremiah is an epic story of intransigence, contention…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (282+ words) Although the tower at Poriya is in ruins, we know it would have originally had a diameter of 19 meters and consisted of three concentric circular walls. It was situated along an ancient road that runs north to south. Due to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (131+ words) A brand new inscription from Lachish, discovered just last year and published in a recent Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology article, reveals the use of word "alit in the Levant as early as 3, 200 years ago, at the end of the Late…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (376+ words) And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan. And Joseph was the governor [alit] over the land" (Genesis 42: 5-6). Nevertheless, alit has at least been generally recognized as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (895+ words) For nine years, the Israel Antiquities Authority (iaa) and Israel's Ministry of Heritage have been working together to preserve the history of the Jewish people and their ties to the land of Israel. By excavating sites throughout Israel, the iaa's…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (694+ words) On February 28, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Since 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the shah of Iran, Iran has been operating as the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism. Iran, largely unchecked and…...