Aaron’s tomb in Jordan will re-open to Israeli tourists after the site was closed following a group that allegedly prayed there.
A researcher claims that the world’s oldest chess piece was discovered in Jordan.
Sara Toth Stub explains what happened to Petra after it was abandoned by the Nabateans.
It’s not clear where Egyptians came up with five million African sacred ibises, but a DNA study shows that they were not raised in breeding farms.
Archaeologists have discovered five lion mummies in excavations in Saqqara.
3-D scans of the bust of Nefertiti are now available online.
The Ilisu dam will soon flood Hasankeyf, one of the oldest known and continuously inhabited settlements in the world.
The Central Baths at Pompeii have now been opened to tourists.
A reconstruction of the god Moloch is part of an exhibit on Carthage in Rome.
Cyrus, king of Persia, is the latest subject in Bryan Windle’s series of bioarchaeographies.
Save the date: the annual conference of the Institute of Biblical Context, now redubbed the Infusion Bible Conference, will be held on June 8 to 10, 2020 in west Michigan. The topic is “Paul and His Roman World.”
Gift subscriptions are now available for Walking the Bible Lands.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Explorator, Keith Keyser
