A bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was found in the Temple of Kom Ombo, in Aswan, Egypt.
The subway project in Thessaloniki has yielded over 300,000 artifacts and provided additional information about the city’s 2,300-year-old history.
New evidence shows that Mycenae was destroyed by violence, not by an earthquake (Haaretz premium).
“An eagle-eyed scholar has identified the shadowy outlines of passages from the Bible behind an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur’an – the only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text.”
Pierre Tallet will be lecturing on “The Discovery of the Oldest Papyri of Egypt in Khufu’s Harbor in Wadi el-Jarf (Red Sea)” at the Museo Egizio in Turin on April 30.
Students at Brown University reenacted the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptians and the Hittites.
CyArk and Google Arts and Culture are partnering to create 3D models of ancient Corinth and other archaeological sites.
On sale for $0.99 for Kindle: Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus, by Wayne Stiles
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The new ESV Archaeology Study Bible is a tremendous resource. I hope to post on it here shortly, but in the meantime, you can listen to an interview on The Book and the Spade with John Currid, watch a short video of Currid explaining why archaeology can’t prove the Bible (and doesn’t need to), or watch the publisher’s video introduction. You’ll find the best price for a couple more days at Westminster Bookstore (their genuine leather copy is about the same price as Amazon’s hardcopy; I have a leather copy and it’s beautiful).
HT: Ted Weis, Agade, Joseph Lauer, Mike Harney, BibleX
