Madeleine Mumcuoglu and Yosef Garfinkel explain how a shrine model discovered at Khirbet Qeiyafa may help us to better understand Solomon’s Temple.
Samuel Dewitt Pfister asks whether the latest claim about Bethsaida and the Church of the Apostles should be trusted.
ABR has announced the discovery of three altar horns in their excavations at Shiloh this summer. (Press release not online as of this writing.)
Applications for excavating at Shiloh in 2020 with the Associates for Biblical Research are now being accepted.
“Hamas has done little to protect Gaza’s antiquities and in some cases actively destroys them.”
Though rare and significant, few people know about a First Temple period cistern discovered near the Western Wall of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Joe Zias looks at ancient crucifixion, considering the difficulties of the lone archaeological bone and arguing that crosses were shaped as a T.
Clyde Billington reviews the latest archaeological news on this week’s The Book and the Spade.
A slideshow/video on the work of M. G. Kyle at Tell Beit Mirsim’s excavations from 1926 to 1932 is on YouTube. The photos have captions, and if you read faster, you can advance more quickly through parts. The video clips may be the earliest from an excavation in the Holy Land. Near the end, there are scenes from a grain harvest as well as footage from Jerusalem in 1930.
HT: Ted Weis, Agade, G. M. Grena
