The blog for Eilat Mazar’s excavations south of the Temple Mount has some new posts, including one reporting the discovery of a 10th-century Egyptian scarab. Mazar asks if the scarab belonged to Solomon’s wife.
The largest Egyptian sarcophagus ever identified belonged to Merneptah and is now being re-assembled.
The Harvard Gazette: “In a high-tech project that would have been impossible even four years ago, technicians are attempting to re-create a 2-foot-long ceramic lion that likely flanked an image of the goddess Ishtar in a temple in long-ago Nuzi.”
NY Times: “The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology . . . is undertaking an ambitious effort to become more accessible to the public.”
Seth Rodriquez continues his biblical geography series with the Coastal Plain – Plain of Dor.
SourceFlix records a funeral procession in front of the tomb of Lazarus and reflects on the meaning of Jesus’ miracle.
Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus is $2.99 on Kindle for a few days (recommended previously here).
Glo is now available for $35 (reg. $90).
Logos has several new Archaeology sets available at a discount. All of them include the standard surveys by Mazar and Stern. The medium size includes the “Cities of Paul” images volume.
HT: Jack Sasson
Photo from the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
