Two discoveries were announced this week that will both likely make the “top 10” list for 2021: a Jerubbaal inscription and a city wall of Jerusalem. Those will summarized at greater length here tomorrow and Monday.
Archaeologists have discovered remains of an uneaten pig in a house in the City of David dating to about 700 BC. The underlying journal article is here.
Two coins from the First and Second Jewish Revolts were discovered in an archaeological survey in eastern Benjamin. The survey report was published in the Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin.
Week 2 has concluded at the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavations, and Aren Maeir is faithful as always to post updates and photos. The most recent is here.
Eve Harow interviewed Aren Maeir on the Rejuvenation podcast.
Gordon Govier reviews the discoveries and developments in biblical archaeology this summer on The Book and the Spade podcast.
Once again, Bryan Windle has a post that you could adapt for a lecture or lesson, with his Top 10 Discoveries Related to Abraham.
“In ‘Legend of Destruction,’ Gidi Dar’s new film about the destruction of the Second Temple, artists David Polonsky and Michael Faust faced a serious challenge: make an animation movie composed entirely of still paintings. It took them eight years to complete” (Haaretz premium).
Glenn Schwartz believes that “the world’s first fully developed alphabetic writing arrived on the scene some 500 years earlier than what archaeologists have long believed.” Christopher Rollston offers his reflections.
New release: Ramat Raḥel VI: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit, by Oded Lipschits, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot. Save 30% with code NR21.
Excavation of the second Khufu Boat has concluded, and final restoration work is now being done at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
David Ian Lightbody writes about the origin of the cartouche in Old Kingdom Egypt.
Italian authorities have recovered 782 ancient artifacts stolen by a Belgian art collector.
“The Colosseum Archaeological Park reopens the House of the Vestal Virgins to the public fully on 6 July following an extensive restoration that began in 2013.”
The Museum with No Frontiers has launched a new website.
Here are some recent episodes on Digging for Truth:
- Temple Mount Revisionism: A Response (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- Pharaoh Shishak, with Bryan Windle
- King David’s Fortified City of Khirbet Qeiyafa, with Michael Hasel
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Ted Weis, Arne Halbakken, Steven Anderson, Charles Savelle, Roger Schmidgall, Explorator
