A beautiful seal with a Hebrew inscription from the time of Hezekiah was discovered in the Mount Carmel range. The seal is believed to have belonged to an official from Judah, and LMLK seal impressions were also found at the site.
The Caesarea aqueduct will be restored in a project that will take 40 months and cost 40 million shekels ($13 million). “The work will include planning, conservation, the constructive stabilization of each of the aqueduct’s 85 arches, engineering treatment of the upper aqueduct (the water channel itself), and of course, arranging a safe pedestrian crossing under the arches.”
The Grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity will be restored for the first time in 600 years.
The Humble Skeptic visited the Hecht Museum and asks whether an ossuary discovered in 1983 that mentions Joanna the granddaughter of Theophilus might be related to the two individuals mentioned in the Gospel of Luke (18 min).
Bryan Windle shares the results of his research into the excavations of Jericho in a two-part episode of Digging for Truth.
BibleMapper has posted an audio-visual reading of very interesting Genesis 14.
The Duke University Chronicle writes about the relationship of Carol and Eric Meyers over many years of teaching and leading excavations in Galilee. (The story doesn’t mention it, but interested readers may want to pick up Eric’s An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir. I personally enjoyed it.)
Aren Maeir announces that the 8th Annual “Jerusalem Days” conference will be held on July 7-10 at Yad Yitzah Ben-Zvi in Jerusalem on the topic of “Jerusalem: Between East and West.”
John James Davis, professor and president of Grace Theological Seminary, died this week.
Gabriel Barkay was honored this week in an event attended by many friends, colleagues, and students. The report of the evening includes recorded tributes by Paul Wright and Andy Vaughn.
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Ted Weis, Keith Keyser, Explorator