Archaeologists have uncovered the largest Early Bronze city in Israel. The site of En Esur is 160 acres in size and is located 7 miles (11 km) east of Caesarea.
A lengthy inscription discovered at Pompeii in 2017 has been translated. It describes a “massive coming-of-age party for a wealthy young man.”
In the ruins of the ancient Hittite capital, there is a large, beautiful green rock that is a mystery to archaeologists and visitors.
Christopher Rollston is using multispectral imagery to study ostraca discovered at Macherus in 1968.
“The British Library, the largest national library in the world by number of items cataloged, has for the first time ever put some of its rarest and most ancient religious texts online for the general public to be able to access them from around the world.”
In a 2015 article for a special edition of the BBC History Magazine now published online, Aren Maeir identifies 10 key discoveries from the Holy Land. (It seems to me to be cheating for one of those to be “the discoveries of Jerusalem.”)
A portion of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums has reopened after years of renovations.
250,000 objects from the Louvre will be moved over the next four years to a non-public storage facility in northern France.
A student volunteer describes her experiences at Hazor in the last three years.
Wayne Stiles recently led a tour to Rome, and he shares some of his observations and reflections here.
JJ Routley argues that there is such a thing as Christian archaeology.
Bryan Windle has begun a new series of archaeological biographies, and the first subject is King Hezekiah.
The Getty Trust is devoting $100 million over the next 10 years to protect endangered historical sites around the world through dialogue and conservation.
If you would like to volunteer for a winter excavation in Israel, registration is now open for the February season at Timna.
A new survey is aiming to shed light on the Nabateans who lived in what is now Saudi Arabia.
The Wadi Shuʿaib Archaeological Survey Project (WSAS) is a new project in the area northwest of Amman, Jordan.
Bryan Windle has posted a resource review of the Photo Companion to the Gospels, with a focus on how he has used the Luke volume in his preaching.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Ted Weis, Keith Keyser, Explorator
