Egypt has announced the discovery of a Greco-Roman temple near the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert.
The world’s oldest bridge, a 4,000-year-old Sumerian structure, will be preserved through a partnership between Iraq and the British Museum. There’s a video here.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is exhibiting ten fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, along with 600 artifacts, until September 3.
CBS News reports on rival groups seeking to leverage technology to read 2,000-year-old charred Herculaneum scrolls.
Michael Rakowitz has recreated one of the lamassu from Nineveh that was destroyed by ISIS. It is now on display in Trafalgar Square.
“The Acropolis Museum in Athens is welcoming the summer season with an extraordinary free concert of music played on an ancient Greek water-organ.” You can see a reproduction in operation here.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a million dollar grant “to implement a sustainable, extensible digital library platform and set of curatorial processes to federate records relating to the cultural heritage of the Middle East.”
A box in storage at Swansea University in Wales was discovered to contain a relief of Hatshepsut.
Nachliel Selavan guides tours through the Metropolitan Museum of Art that focus on the Exodus story.
A post adapted from the new ESV Archaeology Study Bible identifies the “10 Most Significant Discoveries in the Field of Biblical Archaeology.”
HT: Ted Weis, Charles Savelle, Joseph Lauer, Agade, Steven Anderson
