Many finds have been made during the course of excavations required by the Marmaray project, a railway tunnel connecting the Asian and European sides of Istanbul.
Archaeologists excavating at Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa Train Station have made a number of discoveries spanning three millennia.
New stone ram heads have been discovered in Luxor during the restoration of an ancient road.
“Egypt is using an international award it recently won for restoring the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria to promote tourism.”
“Slaves were primarily for credit, not for labor,” write Ella Karev and Seth Richardson in a piece entitled “Rethinking Slavery in the Ancient Near East.”
The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages is offering free courses in 12 Jewish languages, including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic.
A 12-minute video of the British Institute of Persian Studies’s contribution to Iranian archaeology of the 1960s and 1970s was recently screened at the Institute’s 60th anniversary and is now online.
A trailer is online advertising a documentary about Susa that will be available on BBC Select.
“The 7 Churches of Revelation: Times of Fire” will be a “virtual cinema event” beginning on October 26.
The Amarna Letters are the subject of the latest podcast episode on the Biblical World, with Mary Buck and Chris McKinny.
Two new books on coins:
- Guide to Biblical Coins, 6th edition, by David Hendin
- The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, by Elon D. Heymans (Amazon)
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Joseph Lauer, Charles Savelle, Ted Weis
