Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden ...

Archaeologists traced a 2,000-foot limestone boulevard likely linking the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, built under the ...

Please, let's try to stay as much to the facts as possible and keep advocacy and value judgments to a minimum. In another thread a few people brought up some interesting tidbits about biblical ...

“We believe that St. Joseph was a carpenter. But that’s not exactly what the Gospels tell us. They tell us that he was a tekton, a house builder or construction worker. Keep in mind that timber is ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

In 2019, Israeli archaeologists dug up a pottery fragment in the Judean foothills. Akin to the disposable ‘plasticware’ of the ancient world, broken pottery is nothing out of the ordinary for ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a massive Roman council hall in Turkey – and the site holds carvings linked to early Christian worship. The discovery, found in the ancient city of ...

When it comes to assigning dates to military campaigns described in the Bible, the parameters of the debate take on almost biblical proportions. When did the Amalekites wage war against the Hebrews in ...

In the Old City of Jerusalem, no one ever went broke underestimating the proof required to help the faithful suspend disbelief — or in a modern twist, allow the skeptical to bolster their heterodoxy.

Coronavirus interrupts excavation projects across Israel. The nation’s leading evangelical archaeology program is closing, partly in response to COVID-19. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary ...

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public. Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of ...