What do you do when your summer excavation site turns out to be less than 5 miles from a war zone?
The Ashkelon team had to figure matters out on the fly.
Mark Hoffman is inviting everyone to join his free, online course, “Survey of the Lands of the Bible.”
This MOOC begins in September and you can participate as much and as little as desired.
Wayne Stiles has a well-written and well-illustrated article about Ein Parath, where Jeremiah buried his loincloth.
How did archaeologists come to reject the biblical description of Joshua’s conquest? Henry Smith explains. He is interviewed briefly about the article here.
Leon Mauldin takes his readers to the Mamertine Prison in Rome.
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq.
Cleopatra’s Needle in New York City is getting a laser cleaning. “In nanoseconds, the soot particles are turned into white-hot plasma.”
The latest issue of ‘Atiqot is online and it includes several articles about an excavation in the Kidron Valley.
Göbekli Tepe excavator Klaus Schmidt died last week.
Amnon Rosenfeld—In Memoriam, by Howard R. Feldman.
HT: Charles Savelle, G. M. Grena, Craig Dunning
