“More than 17,000 archaeological artefacts have disappeared from museums and heritage sites in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s cultural authorities and international human rights organisations.”
“Inspectors in Israel have seized hundreds of ancient and forged coins hidden inside a balcony planter at a private home in East Jerusalem.”
John DeLancey filmed a video walking up the Pilgrim’s Road from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount the day after it finally opened to the public.
Stephen Compton proposes that an Assyrian relief depicts Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem, not Eltekeh. (I disagree with several things, including the underlying premise that Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem.)
A summary of the 2025 excavations at Shiloh has been published.
Bryan Windle describes the fortifications of Jericho City V, the level he believes was destroyed by Joshua.
New release: The Chronicles of David and Solomon: 1 Chronicles 10 – 2 Chronicles 9: A New Translation and Commentary, by Yigal Levin (Bloomsbury, $126-$158; more at Amazon)
Robert Stein, longtime professor of New Testament at Bethel College and Seminary and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died recently.
BibleMapper has created a beautiful poster map of the land of tribes of Reuben, Gad, and eastern Manasseh.
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Paleojudaica