Biblical Credibility and Archaeology
[Biblical Archaeology News] One of the great friends of the Bible is the field of archaeology. Over and over, the biblical record has been validated by...
Seal of Jezebel Identified
Seal of Jezebel IdentifiedBryant G. Wood, Ph.D. In the early 1960s a collection of privately-owned ancient seals was donated to the Israel Museum in...
Egyptian Tomb Chapel Moves
The 1904 St Louis Exposition, otherwise grandly known as the World’s Fair, attracted all the great and the good in America and for their entertainment every...
The Wealth Of Croesus
Some years ago I toured the Seven Churches of Asia, the seven churches referred to in the first three chapters of St John’s Apocalypse. Ephesus and Pergamon...
The First Marathon
The tangled story of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians is too complex to be described here. Let us start, however, with the Athenian raid on...
Egyptian Massage Parlour
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Biblical Archeology Course 4, Lesson 5
Biblical Archeology Course 4, Lesson 5Cylinder of Nabonidus The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar is a long text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (556-539...
Ancient Gears
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SHIPWRECKS IN DOR HARBOUR
The saying, "Any port in a storm" was certainly not true of Dor harbour 20 miles south of Haifa on the coast of Palestine. As a refuge it was one of the few...
Babylon The Golden
The TV news report leapt off the screen – coalition troops were facing fierce resistance at Hilla as they continued their advance on Baghdad. US Marines...
Afgan Treasures
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The Masada Myth?
A programme called "The Masada Myth" on Britain’s Radio 4 recently focussed attention on the claims made by some in Israel that the events related by the...
American School Of Oriental Research
The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem is the oldest...
Cutting Granite like Cheese
Whenever the Diggings tour visits the granite quarries at Aswan, I marvel at the way in which the ancient Egyptians carved up the mountains as if they were...
Palestine Exploration Fund
The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The purpose of the PEF was (and is) to promote research into the archaeology and...
Tablet On messiah and Resurrection
Tablet ignites debate on messiah and resurrectionBy Ethan Bronner, Published: July 5, 2008 JERUSALEM: A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that...
THE MIDAS TOUCH
For the last two years, the annual Diggings tour has included a visit to Gordion, an archaeological site about 100 km west of Ankara, beside the modern...
DEAD SEA ANCHOR
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Luke’s Accuracy I
Wayne JacksonChristian Courier: ArchivesWednesday, February 25, 2004 Bible critics have charged that Luke 2:1-3 is rife with historical errors. Yet the...
Biblical Archeology, Free Course 3
Archeology depends upon artifacts discovered from the ancient worlds for its task of reconstruction. It must never be forgotten that "reconstruction" is...
The Development Of Archeology
Dr. Johnson C. Philip Archeology is the science that studies the past with the help of tangible materials from past civilizations that can be discovered...
Mareshah: Battles and Burials
Mareshah is where our Diggings group has been excavating for the last five years, and it has had a colourful history. It was one of the most important cities...
Elgin Marbles – Cleaned or Vandalised?
"Melina Mercouri, thou shoulds’t have lived to see this hour" or words to that effect, for the fiery Greek Minister for Culture, who was unrelenting in her...
Biblical Archeology, Free Course 1
Archeology is the science that studies the past with the help of tangible materials from past civilizations that can be discovered today. Though the...