archaeology

Grigory Kessel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences used ultraviolet photography to read text that had been written on parchment in the sixth century but erased and reused centuries later. 

New research in Israel on a 3,000-year-old clay jug supports the biblical story of Solomon receiving a visit from the Queen of Sheba because it suggests the two kingdoms already had a relationship, according to the archaeologist who studied it.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered the mosaic floor of an ancient church from the Roman era and are opening it up to the public with the hope that hikers and tourists will stop by the site.

A seemingly rare archaeological find bearing the same of King Darius of the Bible is not authentic and includes an inscription made just last year, the Israel Antiquities Authority says.

A 2,500-year-old pottery shard listing the name of King Darius of the Bible has been found in Israel in what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind discovery.

A 2,900-year-old basalt stone slab contains an extra-biblical reference to King David in support of him being an actual “historical figure,” according to scholars writing in the latest edition of the Biblical Archaeology Review.

A Byzantine church dating back to the 6th century was uncovered in the Jericho area of the West Bank, the Civil Administration’s Archaeological Unit announced Wednesday.

Archaeologists in Israel announced this week that the site where Jesus Christ healed a blind man by the Pool of Siloam will be excavated and made open to the public for the first time.

Archaeologists with the Israeli Antiquities Authority uncovered hundreds of artifacts during an excavation of a burial cave that is believed by some to be the tomb of Jesus' midwife, Salome.

An Israeli ancient history professor has recently translated inscriptions describing the life of the biblical Judean King Hezekiah.