Hezekiah’s Pool is now clean, for the first time in decades if not centuries. Tom Powers gives the report and includes many photos. He suggests that the workers found a paved or plastered floor.
(Background here.)
Biblical Archaeology Society has a brand spanking new blog that includes an RSS feed and welcomes readers with a new 140-page ebook entitled the “Ten Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries.” The new site also allows readers (upon sign-in) to control which email subscriptions they receive. The blog is part of a complete re-design of the BAS website.
Olof Pedersén has posted his list of ANE Placemarks for Google Earth.
Foreign Policy has posted a photo essay entitled, “Once Upon a Time in Damascus.” More than a dozen photos from the American Colony/Eric Matson collection are featured.
The work of Gustaf Dalman is being celebrated in a program to be held at the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem on August 18-19. I’ve been working on publishing a Dalman project myself but I will not be finished in time for the 70th anniversary of his death.
Restoration work is scheduled to be restarted at the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser) at Saqqara (with photo). The article notes that already a second successor to Zahi Hawass is in office.
The Pantheon in Rome may have been built as a massive sundial.
In recent weeks, Wayne Stiles has visited En Gedi and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
CBN News has a 30-second video of the tunnel where they discovered the Roman sword and etching of a menorah. Ynet News posts a two-minute video of the tunnel with English subtitles (to start you may need to click the smaller button on the right side of the screen).
HT: Charles Savelle, Joseph Lauer, Jack Sasson
2 thoughts on “Wednesday Roundup”
Todd, Have you ever been to the tomb of John The Baptist in Damascus? Is this viewed as a reliable tradition that it is his head?
Brian – no and no.