Israel aims to become the leader in archaeological knowledge within three years as they develop an open database and transform it into an advanced scientific repository using Google’s artificial intelligence tools.
A volunteer at the Temple Mounting Sifting Project this week discovered a seal impression from the First Temple period with Egyptian symbols.
Joshua Berman wonders if the biblical account of the exodus was “mockingly subverting an earlier Egyptian text.”
Alon Gildoni and Ron Milo created “Haggadah on the Map,” with a printable pdf version and an online interactive version. The Times of Israel interviewed Gildoni.
A newly excavated fortress at Tell el-Kharouba in northern Sinai might be related to the Way of Horus which the Lord led the Israelites away from during the exodus.
Ruth Marks Eglash reports on the excavations in the Kishle, just south of the Tower of David complex in Jerusalem.
Archaeologists discovered a cache of ostrich eggs near the remains of a campfire used by desert nomads in southern Israel.
“Recent excavations in Egypt’s Kalaya region in the Beheira governorate have uncovered a fifth-century CE building that offers a detailed glimpse into early Coptic monastic life.”
A new study has identified a female beast hunter in a now-lost ancient Roman mosaic.
Woo Min Lee argues that Sennacherib’s claim that he “shut [Hezekiah] up like a bird in a cage” was a declaration of victory, not defeat.
The latest issue of Biblical Archaeology Review includes articles on the Last Supper, sights and smells of synagogues, the “Diaspora Revolt” against Rome, and the Roman siegeworks built around Jerusalem in AD 70.
Greek Reporter has an article about the synagogue at Delos, the oldest one known outside the land of Israel.
Greece will be establishing two new underwater archaeological sites that will be open to divers.
New release: The Untold Story of the Kingdom of Judah, by Oded Lipschits (De Gruyter Brill, $88)
New release: Pencil and Dust. Women Who Shaped Archaeology in Greece and the Greek World, edited by Sylviane Déderix and Maguelone Bastide (École française d’Athènes; $11)
New online course: “The Archaeology of Ancient Israel: A View from Mesopotamia,” by Paul Collins (Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society; £50-£100)
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Explorator