Archaeologists have finally discovered the port of ancient Byblos.
Philippe Bohstrom looks at the history of the city of Dan and the tribe of the Danites in a well-illustrated Haaretz article.
Wayne Stiles beat me to the new Virtual Reality tour at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and I asked him to write about it. He did.
Albawaba has a short slide show of the pre-Islamic Middle East.
New tests on the (probably fake) lead codices from Jordan suggest that the lead is ancient.
The Jewish Virtual Library posts a list of significant archaeological discoveries in Israel from 2004 to present. The list seems to be more complete for the last two years than for earlier ones.
Leon Mauldin visited the largely ignored site of Tirzah on his recent trip to Israel.
The Jewish Press posts a 15-minute video entitled “Secrets of the Machpela in Hebron.”
Amazon has a $5 off code good through Sunday on any book(s) that total $15 or more. Enter GIFTBOOK at checkout. Here are three books that qualify:
- Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, ed. John Walton and Craig Keener
- Biblical Turkey, by Mark Wilson
- Jerusalem: The Temple Mount, by Leen and Kathleen Ritmeyer
HT: Charles Savelle, Joseph Lauer, Agade
