Ray Bohlin Sometimes the Evidence Doesn’t Stack Up Skeptics around the world claim that Jesus either never said He was God or He never exemplified the activities and mindset of God. Either way they rather triumphantly proclaim that Jesus was just a man. Some...
The city of Ekron (Hebrew: עֶקְרוֹן ʿeqrōn, also transliterated Accaron) was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine ‘pentapolis,’ located in southwestern Canaan. During the Iron Age, Ekron was a border city on the frontier contested between Philistia and the...
In previous issued of Diggings we have spoken of the work of Franck Goddio, who has been exploring the murky waters off Alexandria. We have mentioned his discovery of the remains of the Pharos, the famous lighthouse that guided shipping into the harbour; we have also...
The British Museum has recently opened a permanent exhibition of Biblical archaeology where items from the Lebanon and Palestine are displayed. The new display forms an extension to the gallery where Hittite and Mesopotamian finds are on show. Some of the items are...
Pula, in Istria, has a splendid collection of Roman remains – the Zlatna Vrata or Golden Gate, the sixth largest amphitheatre in the world, several splendid mosaics and a hill-top crowned with a maze of ruins that include a lovely theatre and various other buildings....
