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Virtual Reality in Archaeology
Wearing one of Lithodomos’s headsets, a visitor to Jerusalem’s Western Wall catches a glimpse of ancient Jerusalem. The use of virtual reality in archaeology can help tourists visualize how a site may...
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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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An Ancient Jewish Lamp Workshop in the Galilee
Ceramic oil lamps discovered at Shikhin suggest the ancient Jewish village once had a lamp workshop. Photo: Courtesy Shikhin Excavation Project.Excavations conducted in 2015 in an ancient Jewish...
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The “High Place” at Tel Gezer
Tel Gezer’s first excavator, R.A.S. Macalister, believed these ten monumental standing stones were part of a Middle Bronze Age Canaanite “high place” dedicated to child sacrifice. This photo was taken...
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Jewish Worship, Pagan Symbols
AN INCREDIBLE FIND. In December 1928, a work crew from kibbutz Beth Alpha was digging a drainage channel when mosaic pieces began to appear in their shovel loads.Ein Harod is a spring that rises in the...
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Who Were the Phoenicians?
Amrit’s Phoenician temple in modern Syria dates to the sixth–fourth centuries B.C.E.—when the Persians controlled the region. The temple’s elevated cella in the middle of its court and surrounding...
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Giant of the Persian Period
Ephraim SternProfessor Ephraim Stern was one of Israel’s foremost archaeologists, a pioneer in his field with numerous achievements to his credit and an international reputation as a scholar. Alongside...
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Fragment of Homer’s Odyssey Unearthed at Olympia
Archaeologists working at the Greek site of Olympia, home of the ancient Olympic Games, discovered near the sanctuary of Zeus a Roman-period clay tablet containing 13 lines of Homer’s epic poem The...
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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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New Excavations at Tel Shimron
Excavations have launched at the largest archaeological mound in Israel’s Jezreel Valley: Tel Shimron. In the summer of 2017, archaeologists opened up multiple excavation areas. They uncovered remains...
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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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Tel Maresha Caves Reveal Hellenistic Treasures
The Hellenistic city of Maresha was home to a thriving multi-ethnic community of Nabateans, Edomites, Phoenicians, and Judeans from the third to second centuries B.C.E. Excavations at Tel Maresha,...
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2,000-Year-Old Jerusalem Inscription Bears City’s Name
This Jerusalem inscription dating to the first century B.C.E. spells the city’s name as Yerushalayim. Photo: Danit Levy, Israel Antiquities Authority.For the first time, archaeologists have unearthed a...
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Where Is Biblical Bethsaida?
Where is Biblical Bethsaida? One contender is the site of et-Tell, a mile and a half north of the Sea of Galilee. Photo: Duby Tal and Moni Haramati, Albatross/Courtesy of Bethsaida Excavations.The...
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The Church of Laodicea in the Bible and Archaeology
“I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”—Revelation...
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An Unexpected Consequence of the Christian Crusades
The Fihrist (meaning “the catalogue”) is a compendium of all of the significant written works on religion, the humanities and science available at the end of the first millennium A.D. The Fihrist, and...
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2018 BAS Scholarship Winners
BAS Dig Scholarship winner Rebecca Zami is featured on the cover of the January/February 2019 “Dig” issue of BAR. Photo: Courtesy of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project.They came, they saw,...
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Digs 2019: A Day in the Life
ON THE COVER: BAS Dig Scholarship winner Rebecca Zami, a student at Yeshiva University, excavates what might be an Iron Age I production installation at Tell es-Safi / Gath. Photo: Courtesy of the Tell...
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Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City
It’s made such an enormous impact on Western civilization that it’s hard to fathom how small its population really was—small compared even to the centers of contemporaneous empires to the east and to...
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The Cruel End of Canaanite Azekah
Tel Azekah is a massive archaeological mound (tell) in the heart of the Shephelah, or “the lowlands,” in south-central Israel. Watching over a strategic junction in the Elah Valley, it always was a...
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