Archaeologists working at Magdala have discovered a bronze incense shovel and a bronze jug. The press release includes a 1.5-minute video.
Archaeologists believe that they have unearthed a Byzantine church in Gaza. But as quickly as it was discovered, it was destroyed. (This does not serve well those who wish to turn land over to Palestinian control.)
The shrine over the traditional tomb of Jesus will be dismantled and rebuilt in the coming months.
Maybe one of these days they’ll get around to moving the ladder.
Archaeologist Ram Buchnik believes that the Romans influenced ancient Jewish ritual slaughter.
Israel21c has a roundup of recent discoveries made in Israel by hikers, including more details on the discovery of the gold coin.
Shmuel Browns shares some beautiful photos of sinkholes at the Dead Sea.
A New York Times reporter has visited Palmyra and published a photo essay. Note Paleojudaica’s warning before you click the link. Daily Mail has a look inside the Palmyra Museum and it’s not pretty.
“What’s new in ancient Cyprus?” is the subject of a forthcoming study day at The British Museum.
A new Cambridge research project, Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems, “is to focus on exploring how writing developed during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE in the ancient
Mediterranean and Near East, and will investigate how different writing systems and the cultures that used them were related to each other.”
A new DVD presentation by Bryant Wood has been released entitled “The Pharaohs of the Bondage: The Israelite Slavery in Egypt.”
Tent Work in Palestine, by Claude R. Conder, is available as a free pdf download at the Biblical Archaeology Blog.
Who was the real life archaeologist behind the character of Indiana Jones?
Egyptian officials are unhappy after finding a star of David engraved on an ancient temple in Aswan.
Luxor Museum will allow photography of its exhibits, for a time, for a fee.
Wayne Stiles explains how Jesus’s healing of the lame man at the Pools of Bethesda shows how God’s kindness motivates repentance.
Eli Ofir has recently launched Holy Land Portraits, a collection of beautiful, high-quality prints of sites in Israel drawn as if in biblical times.
HT: Charles Savelle, Joseph Lauer, Agade, Steven Anderson, Ted Weis
