Current News and Recent Discoveries from Ancient Times.
- DUBLIN, IRELAND—A recent investigation by University College Dublin archaeologist Conor Trainor posits that ceramic beehives […] The post Did Cretan Winemakers Scam Their Roman Customers? appeared first on Archaeology […]
- NORWICH, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a metal detectorist recently retrieved a rare and unique gold […] The post Unique Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Found in English Field appeared first on […]
- FUJIA, CHINA—Researchers from Peking University and the Shandong Institute of Cultural Relics and ARCHAEOLOGY revealed […] The post Ancient DNA Reveals Matrilineal Neolithic Society in China appeared first on […]
- BARU ISLAND, COLOMBIA—In 1708, the Spanish galleon San José departed Portobello, Panama, for Cartagena, Colombia, […] The post New Evidence Points to World's Richest Shipwreck appeared first on Archaeology […]
- CHEGA SOFLA, IRAN—Science News Today reports that archaeologists excavating a Copper Age cemetery in western […] The post Young Woman with Cone-Shaped Skull Suffered Fatal Blow 6,000 Years Ago […]
Biblical Archeology:
- What do the Dead Sea Scrolls say about Jesus? What do they say about the world in which Jesus lived? In BAR, James C. VanderKam examines the overlap between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. The post The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society.
- While excavating the Herodian city of Caesarea Maritima, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) made a startlingly beautiful discovery: a marble sarcophagus depicting the […] The post Heracles and Dionysus in Caesarea Maritima appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society.
- Northern Iraq is a landscape steeped in both historical and economic significance. During the early 20th century, international oil consortiums dispatched businessmen, geologists, and engineers […] The post The Nuzi Tablets appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society.
- In which year was Jesus born? While this is sometimes debated, the majority of New Testament scholars place Jesus’ birth in 4 B.C. or before. The post When Was Jesus Born—B.C. or A.D.? appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society.
- The open-air altar shrine, called a bamah (plural bamot), is known through several books of the Biblical canon. Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot were worship sites that usually contained an altar. The post High Places, Altars and the Bamah appeared first on Biblical Archaeology Society.
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