The oldest complete copy of the Ten Commandments is going on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem for a brief time. No articles provide the dates of the display. High-resolution images of this Dead Sea Scroll are available here.
Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian army headquarters from the New Kingdom at Tell Habwa.
“The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) and the Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS) in the New York University Division of Libraries have redesigned and relaunched the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) online portal.” The new ADWL includes 121 titles from Brill.
65 titles from ASOR are now available online including works by Charlesworth, Cross, Glueck, King, Lapp, Levine, MacDonald, Meyers, and Pritchard.
Forward has photos of this year’s Samaritan Passover sacrifice. The Daily Mail has many more.
Ten mosaics in the museum in Antioch on the Orontes have been seriously damaged during restoration.
Wayne Stiles: Why I Don’t Use My Holy Land Photos on My Blog
This week on the Book and the Spade, Clyde Billington draws a connection between Khirbet Qeiyafa and the heights of David mentioned in Pharaoh Shishak’s inscription.
The ancient synagogue of Meiron was recently vandalized.
Theresa Howard Carter has died.
HT: Agade, Ted Weis, Charles Savelle
