The discovery of bullae in Jerusalem indicates that at the time of Hezekiah there were two central treasuries, one a temple treasury and the other the royal treasury of Judah located at the “Royal Building” in the Ophel excavations. The underlying article will be posted soon at the website of the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, but is available now on Academia.
An analysis of remains found under a toilet south of ancient Jerusalem reveals that the people who used it were infected with a variety of parasites.
“Almost four miles of alleys in Jerusalem’s Old City were recently made wheelchair-friendly, while an innovative accessibility system for visually impaired people is also being installed after ten years of work.”
There is a new virtual tour of the City of David. To access it, you have to enter your email address, but once you are in, you can virtually walk around the tour areas of the City of David. I am more impressed with the 360-degree views than the very brief explanations given, but I do not know of anything comparable.
The Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society has announced its upcoming lectures to be held on Zoom:
- Jan 20: Three Decades of Excavations at Bethsaida, by Rami Arav
- Feb 17: New Light on Iron Age and Persian Period Jerusalem, by Yuval Gadot
- Mar 15: Did Rabbis Write Down the Mishnah? Orality and Writing in the Jewish World in Late Antiquity, by Philip Alexander
Aren Maeir reflects on his work as an archaeologist in an interview in the Discussions with the Diggers series.
Israel’s Good Name reports on a couple of recent excursions in the vicinity of Givat Ze’ev in the territory of Benjamin.
Suzanne Singer, one of the original correspondents for Biblical Archaeology Review, has died in Jerusalem.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Alexander Schick, Arne Halbakken, Mark Hoffman