Excavations of the Shamash Gate at Nineveh shows evidence of the city’s fall in 612 BC. The work being done is part of a project to conserve and restore the gate.
Turkish Archaeological News rounds up the top stories for the month of April, including:
- Excavations are revealing more of the city of Aspendos
- Urartian water engineering may have been superior to early Roman systems
- A Roman coin dating to AD 192–253 may depict Noah’s ark, making it the earliest depiction of a biblical scene on currency.
- The third season of excavations at Lystra has begun, with new work in the necropolis.
Recent claims of the discovery of Noah’s Ark are refuted in this 1992 article by Andrew Snelling.
Archaeologists have used AI to reconstruct the face of one of the victims of Pompeii.
Fifty US students will be volunteering in the first year of the Kenchreai Coastal and Marine Survey, studying the area of New Testament Cenchreae.
New release: On the Face of the Deep: The Sea in Scripture, by Linford Stutzman (Baker Academic)
The Classical Association of Scotland is offering online classes in the month of June in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Egyptian, Hurrian, Sumerian, Ugaritic, and Latin.
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Explorator