This two-minute video filmed by the Lumière brothers shows footage of the Jerusalem railroad, Jaffa Gate, the Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The film was recently recovered and published by Lobster Films.
HT: Ted Weis
Related resources:
The American Colony and Eric Matson Collection
Noah Wiener has a follow-up article on the spring tunnel discovered in the Rephaim Valley. He includes a great photo of the tunnel.
Zachi Zweig disagrees with Leen Ritmeyer’s dating of the newly revealed course of ashlar stones on the Temple Mount. He dates it to the Early Islamic period.
A woman has turned over to the IAA a large collection of pottery discovered by a relative in the Mediterranean Sea.
The winter dig at Khirbet el-Maqatir began in the snow. They spent several weeks excavating three caves.
The ancient Myceneans once used portable grills at their picnics.
Archaeologists have discovered grain from the Neolithic period at Çatalhöyük.
The report for the 2013 excavation season at Tall el-Hammam is now online.
The first two volumes of NGSBA Archaeology are available for download. (NGSBA = Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology.)
Just published: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE, edited by
Margreet L. Steiner and Ann E. Killebrew. Oxford University Press. 912 pages. $165.
Wayne Stiles explains how to make the maps in your Bible atlas fully searchable.
HT: Joseph Lauer, Tim Graham, Jack Sasson
There is a great opportunity for older archaeology enthusiasts to have their photographs preserved in the Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project. The team is particularly interested in photographs taken by students and volunteers in excavations prior to 1980. If you have some of these photos, or if you know someone who does, please get in touch with NPAPH Project as soon as you can.
The official website has lots of details. You can also check out their Facebook page. The trailer below describes their vision.
Some archives are already online for viewing:
Dan P. Cole Photo Collection – Shechem and Gezer
Gordion Expedition Collection – the ancient Phrygian capital
Leo Boer Photograph Collection, 1953-1954 – travels of a student
Others cover Italy, The Netherlands, and Guatemala.
The Israel Museum has acquired the world’s “first Jewish coin.”
Eric Cline and Christopher Rollston have been selected as the new co-editors of BASOR.
Accordance Bible Software has a sale on their collection of Dead Sea Scrolls Images.
The Fall 2013 issue of the electronic newsletter DigSight is now online.
The Top 10 Discoveries of 2013 at Archaeology include Egypt’s oldest port.
Three lectures related to Egyptian history given at the Harvard Semitic Museum are now online.
War-torn Syria is being extensively looted by antiquities thieves, according to the head of UNESCO.
HT: Jack Sasson
Accordance Bible Software has a number of items discounted for their Christmas sale, including this one:
This collection includes more than 700 photos taken in the 1960s by David Bivin as he traveled throughout Jerusalem, Israel, the West Bank, and the broader Middle East with his Yashica-D medium-format camera. This is a special collection, as I explain here.
You save $10 off the regular price of $39.99 until the sale ends tomorrow (December 17, 11:59 pm EST). These are great photos, and Accordance adds extra value with the search capability and integration with other Bible resources.
I love this set.
The Times of Israel takes its readers into the new Herod exhibit at the Israel Museum one week ahead of its opening. The article includes many photos, but may be slow loading.
Wayne Stiles has put together some great visual resources of Caesarea, including photos, video, map, and Google Street View.
City Lights over the Middle East – NASA has posted a short video taken from the International Space Station.
Air pollution has been a problem since the days of ancient Rome.
The Oriental Institute has launched its Integrated Database. Phase II will include images.
Metro publishes the “Top 10 archaeological finds of all time.”
Yosef Garfinkel will be lecturing on “Sanctuaries and Cult at Khirbet Qeiyafa” at the Southern
Adventist University’s Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum Lecture Series.
Keith Schoville is retiring from The Book & The Spade radio program.
I am excited to announce that our photo collection Views That Have Vanished is now available as a
module for Accordance. The collection now has all the bells and whistles you would expect from Accordance.
HT: Daniel Wright, Aren Maeir, Charles Savelle, Jack Sasson
