A Byzantine monastery with a mosaic inscription from Deuteronomy 28:6 was discovered near Kiryat Gat in southern Israel.
A stash of rare coins with the image of Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus was found during an excavation project in the Jordan Valley.
Archaeologists found a small mikveh, apparently for private use, near an ancient drainage channel in the City of David. The Hebrew version includes to a short video.
Scholars have a new theory on why there are no cave drawings from the Stone Age in Israel.
Marion Fischel writes about the massive Herodian column that was abandoned in an ancient quarry in the Russian Quarter.
The Tel Dan Inscription is returning home after its brief tour in the US.
New Release: The Tel Aviv University Excavations in Ancient Jaffa , Volume I, by Meir Edrey, Boaz Gross and Ze’ev
New release: ‘Akko III: The 1991-1998 Excavations: The Late Periods. Part II, The Knight’s Hotel Site, the Messika Plot and Miscellaneous Studies, by Danny Syon and Ayelet Tatcher (IAA Reports; open-access).
Zoom lecture on January 16: “A Wise Woman and a Bearded Male: Excavations at Tel Abel Beth Maacah in Northern Israel,” by Nava Panitz-Cohen (Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society; free)
Hybrid lecture at the Albright on Feb 12: “The Hula Provides: Reconstructing Animal Economy and Provisioning under Empire at Kedesh,” by Alexander Dorr
Clinton Bailey, the world’s foremost expert on the Bedouin communities of Israel, died recently.
The latest Jerusalem in Brief compares two 19th-century photos of the Mount of Olives to a modern one, considers the neglect of the Mosque of the Ascension, and a recently discovered book on Jerusalem in the British Mandate period.
HT: Agade, Gordon Franz, Ted Weis, Joseph Lauer, Arne Halbakken, Explorator
