archaeology

Archeologists from Hebrew University running an excavation at the Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert have discovered a rare inscription of Psalm 86 on the side of a building stone.

Archaeologists and workers in Israel in recent weeks have unearthed eight steps at the Pool of Siloam as part of a major project that will reveal – for the first time in centuries – the very stones that Jesus and the men and women of Scripture once walked.

Researchers have found four Roman-era swords with steel blades and hilts and scabbards made of wood and leather in a recent excavation near the Dead Sea.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,800-year-old channel installation that dates to the time of the biblical kings, but that – so far – is a mystery as to its purpose.

The Megiddo Mosaic, an ancient Christian mosaic that was once in northern Israel, may be uprooted and moved to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest city gate in the Holy Land.

An archaeologist who claims to have located the city of Sodom says the location matches the biblical description and that the on-site physical evidence – includeing “glazed” pottery – supports his case.

New evidence reports Nathan Steinmeyer of the Biblical Archaeology Society is confirming the biblical description of the kingdom of Judah as it existed in King David’s time. This is significant, according to Steinmeyer, because “[d]espite King David’s prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little archaeological evidence has been directly linked to the early years of the Kingdom of Judah.” Because of this apparent discrepancy between the archeological record and the biblical description of the region during the 10th century B.C., “some scholars have argued that Judah only became a developed polity in the ninth or even eighth-century B.C.E.”

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has found an ancient receipt from about 2,000 years ago on the City of David's Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem.

An investigative filmmaker who has explored Israel and the Middle East for archaeological evidence for the biblical stories says he has found a “pattern” of physical corroboration for the stories of Scripture that has helped strengthen his faith. 

Tim Mahoney released his first “Patterns of Evidence” documentary in 2015 and is scheduled to release his next one in May: Patterns of Evidence: Journey to Mt. Sinai, Part II. It will be in theaters May 15 and 17, examining the various proposals for the biblical mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments.