High school students excavating in Ramat Beit Shemesh have uncovered remains of a Jewish village from the first century AD.
Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am describe the recently opened Mikveh Trail south of the Temple Mount.
“Did archaeologists find the royal banqueting complex of King Herod the Great in Jerusalem?”
Carl Rasmussen shares an unusual photo of a cross in Jerusalem.
The predators center (walk-through exhibit) at Hai Bar Yotvata is now closed.
Israel’s Good Name recently paid a visit to the Jerusalem Bird Observatory.
John DeLancey has a wrap-up of his latest Israel tour. You may resonate with some of his concluding observations.
This week on The Book and the Spade, Clyde Billington and Gordon Govier discuss the Jebusite and Roman walls of Jerusalem.
Simon Gathercole lectured recently on “The Journeys of Jesus and Jewish Geography” at the Lanier Theological Library.
Gary Shogren suggests his favorite 5 New Testament archaeological discoveries of recent years.
Appian Media is getting closer to reaching its fundraising goal so they can finish the “Following the
Messiah” series.
Douglas Clark of LaSierra University will be leading a team of scholars to create the Madaba
Regional Archaeological Museum.
Construction workers have discovered a tomb from the Neo-Assyrian period in Erbil, Iraq.
Restoring the Mosul Museum will not be easy without any remaining artifacts.
A new walking trail and viewing terraces have been created to attract more tourists to the Titus Tunnel near the ancient port of Seleucia.
Archaeologists have discovered 38 graves in an ancient Jewish cemetery in Rome.
The tourist company Roma Experience now offers visitors to Domus Aurea an augmented reality experience with 3-D glasses that brings to life Nero’s palace as it was in the first century.
In a new article “The Old Testament and the Ancient Near East: Profits and Losses” published on the ABR website, Eugene Merrill identifies “five clear profits,” “three claimed profits,” and “two mixed blessings.”
The National Post loves Eric Cline’s 480-page tome, Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology. An illustrated excerpt discussing the antiquities trade has been posted on the ASOR Blog. The Bible and Interpretation has posted his Megiddo chapter.
Karl Katz, the first curator of the Israel Museum, has written an autobiography entitled The
Exhibitionist, which is reviewed by Asher Weill.
Eisenbrauns has published another valuable study (at a much more affordable price than many academic publishers): The Shephelah during the Iron Age, edited by Oded Lipschits and Aren M. Maeir, with articles about Gezer, Beth Shemesh, Azekah, Qeiyafa, Gath, Zayit, Burna, and Halif. Maeir’s chapter on Gath is online.
William Kelly Simpson and Louis H. Feldman died recently.
HT: Agade, Ted Weis, BibleX
