The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the “Moabite Stone”) is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC Moabite King Mesha, discovered in 1868 at Dhiban (biblical “Dibon,” capital of Moab). The inscription...
Postprocessual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory which is related to the broader development of postmodernism during the 1980s. Processual archaeologists had, if not a single theoretical position to unify them, then at least a common aspiration that drove...
Introduction How do we know that the Bible we have today is even close to the original? Haven’t copiers down through the centuries inserted and deleted and embellished the documents so that the original message of the Bible has been obscured? These questions are...
Once the Hittite language had been identified and its use of cuneiform writing understood, all sorts of fascinating things began to be discovered, such as the fact that the Hittites were among the first (if not the very first) to domesticate horses and harness them to...
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...
