Discoveries

Teresa Neumann (August 9, 2010) While it can’t be proven 100% that the relics are John the Baptist’s, the archaeologist who made the discovery says "it is important to understand one thing—this is the first time ever in the world archaeological practice that relics of St. John are found together with an inscription which just...
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"The site may have been home to the Shardana tribe of the Sea-Peoples, who, according to some researchers, lived in Harosheth Haggoyim, Sisera’s capital city. The city is mentioned in the Bible’s narratives as Sisera’s capital, and it was from there that the army of chariots set out to fight the Israelites, who were...
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Archaeologists Find Oldest Painting of the Apostles in Roman Catacombs by Teresa Neumann : Jun 23, 2010 : Staff – Reuters "This is a very important discovery in the history of the early Christian communities of Rome." (Rome, Italy)—Archaeologists believe that 1500 year-old images found in a section of the catacombs of St. Tecla near St. Paul’s...
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  Teresa Neumann (June 14, 2010) Previously, the oldest known footwear was sandals made from plants found in a cave in Missouri. (Armenia)—The discovery of a 5,500 year old size 4 shoe in the region of the "Cradle of Civilization" has Dr. Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork calling it the "discovery of a lifetime." The shoe,...
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Roman-Built Underwater Aqueduct, Longest of Ancient World, Found in Jordan Teresa Neumann "The aqueduct ended in Gadara, a city with a population of approximately 50,000. According to the Bible, this is where Jesus exorcized demons and chased them into a herd of pigs." (Jordan)—The Romans were certainly amazing engineers, and the recent discovery of a "sensational"...
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At the end of the 2001 Diggings tour 15 of the group of 26 chose to stay an extra week to work as volunteers on our excavations at Mareshah, 30km south west of Jerusalem. Mareshah was a very important city in Old Testament times. It was at the crossroads where travellers from Egypt could...
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French archaeologists led by Alain Zivie claim that on December 1, 1997, they found the tomb of the wet-nurse who cared for Tutankhamun when he was a baby. Her name was Maya and her tomb was found 60 feet below ground level at Saqqara, 30 km south of Cairo.
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Salvage excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in Kfar Kana, in northern Israel, have uncovered an ancient city that dates back to the time of the Biblical kingdom of Israel. Excavations exposed a section of the city wall and remains of buildings. The IAA has dated the site to the 10th-9th centuries...
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According to the Bible, Ahab built for himself a “house of ivory” in Samaria, an off-the-cuff statement which, in my youth, conjured up the picture of a bone-white ramshackle construction made out of elephant tusks. In fact, I gather that a good many Bible students were puzzled, as ivory is not the substance that...
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