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Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle
Read Theodore Feder’s article “Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle” as it originally appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008. The article was first republished in Bible History...
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2,200-Year-Old Duck-Shaped Shovel Unearthed in Ancient Galilee
Update, January 4, 2016: This Bible History Daily story has been updated with additional information on Galilee during the Hellenistic period from Khirbet el-Eika dig director Uzi Leibner.—Ed. The...
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Digs 2016: Passport to the Biblical World
On the cover of BAR, January/February 2016: William Jessup University student Jessica Rentz proudly presents a Persian/Hellenistic-period figurine head of a male priest excavated at Tell Halif in the...
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To Jerusalem: Pilgrimage Road Identified?
Are these curved stone steps at Beit Horon, about 10 miles northwest of Jerusalem, part of an ancient Jerusalem pilgrimage road? Photo: Courtesy of Yotam Tepper and Yigal Tepper.Before the Romans...
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Sepphoris Inscriptions Reference Rabbis
An archaeologist cleans one of the Aramaic inscriptions recently found at Sepphoris.Photo: Miki Peleg, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.A team of researchers from the Kinneret Institute for...
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Birdwatcher Spies Egyptian Scarab Seal at Dor
Birdwatcher Alexander Ternopolsky made a remarkable discovery one day at the archaeological site of Tel Dor on Israel’s Carmel Coast—not a bird, but a rare Egyptian scarab seal. The stone scarab—an...
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IAA to Excavate Judean Desert Caves in Search of Scrolls
The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched a plan to comprehensively excavate the Judean Desert caves, beginning with the Cave of Skulls in Nahal Tse’elim. Photo: Yoli Shwartz, courtesy of the...
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Jezreel Expedition 2016: You Don’t Have to Be an Archaeologist to Dig the Bible
<< Back to Digs 2016 View of our main excavation area on Tel ‘Ein Jezreel above the Spring of Jezreel. Photo: Courtesy of the Jezreel Expedition.The fifth season of the Jezreel Expedition...
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Jezreel Expedition 2016: Jezreel Through Time
<< Back to Digs 2016 Tel Ein Jezreel and Area S from the air. Photo: Courtesy Rize Up Hot Air Balloons.As the Jezreel Expedition’s fourth season of excavation comes to an end, we would like to...
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Biblical Riot at Ephesus: The Archaeological Context
This Roman theater played an important role in the riot at Ephesus against Paul and the early Christians, according to Luke’s account in Acts 19. Photo: Jordan Pickett.In Acts 19, Luke describes a...
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Carchemish in the Bible and History
This Bible History Daily post is excerpted with permission from Mark Wilson’s Biblical Turkey: A Guide to the Jewish and Christian Sites of Asia Minor (Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2010), pp. 42–44. —Ed....
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Jewish Purification: Stone Vessel Workshop Discovered in Galilee
Where do the “Stone Age” and the time of Jesus meet without the aid of a space-time wormhole? At the Galilean site of ‘Einot Amitai near Nazareth in northern Israel, where archaeologists have...
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An Ancient Jewish Lamp Workshop in the Galilee
This Bible History Daily feature was originally published in 2015. It has been updated.—Ed. Ceramic oil lamps discovered this summer at Shikhin suggest the ancient Jewish village once had a lamp...
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The “High Place” at Tel Gezer
This Bible History Daily feature was originally published in 2015.—Ed. Tel Gezer’s first excavator, R.A.S. Macalister, believed these ten monumental standing stones were part of a Middle Bronze Age...
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What the Temple Mount Floor Looked Like
Opus sectile expert Frankie Snyder is seen here with opus sectile tiles discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. Photo: Temple Mount Sifting Project.The Temple Mount Sifting Projecta has...
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The Enduring Symbolism of Doves
This Bible History Daily article was originally published in 2013.—Ed. In addition to its symbolism for the Holy Spirit, the dove was a popular Christian symbol before the cross rose to prominence in...
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The Third Wall of Jerusalem: Where Romans and Jews Battled
“Indeed the city would have been impregnable, had the wall been continued as it began…” —Josephus, The Jewish War, V.153 IAA archaeologists believe they have located in Jerusalem’s Russian Compound the...
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Herod Antipas in the Bible and Beyond
This Bible History Daily feature was originally published in 2012.—Ed. Although he ruled as tetrarch over Galilee in Jesus’ time, we hear relatively little about Herod Antipas in the Bible and other...
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Inscription Reveals Governor of Judea Before the Bar-Kokhba Revolt
Who was the Roman governor of Judea during the time leading up to the Bar-Kokhba revolt, the second Jewish revolt against Rome (132–136 C.E.)? This question has now been answered thanks to an inscribed...
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Digs 2017: Digging Through Time
On the cover of BAR, January/February 2017: Rachel Kalisher, a member of the Leon Levy Expedition’s physical anthropology team, documents a 10th–9th-century B.C.E. burial in Ashkelon’s Philistine...
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