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City of David Excavation 2006–2007
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Kingdom of David and Solomon Discovered
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Articles
Excavations
Overview
Ophel Excavation 2025 (Lower Area)
Ophel Excavation 2024
Ophel Excavation 2023
Ophel Excavation 2022
Ophel Excavation 2018
Ophel Excavation 2013
Ophel Excavation 2012
Ophel Excavation 2009–2010
City of David Excavation 2007–2008
City of David Excavation 2006–2007
Exhibits
Kingdom of David and Solomon Discovered
Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah Discovered
Seals of Jeremiah’s Captors Discovered
Publications & Reports
Publications
Magazine
E-mail Newsletter
Videos
Visuals
Historic
Archaeology
Illustrations
Infographics
Tours
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Christopher Eames
Ancient Arabian Cattle Cult, Jabal and Genesis
Evidence for the earliest pagan worship in Genesis?
By
Christopher Eames
• May 30, 2021
Were Kosher Fish Laws Really Nonexistent in Biblical Times?
New research making headlines has led to such a conclusion. Here’s how the findings correlate with the Bible account.
By
Christopher Eames
• May 26, 2021
Adam and Eve’s Fig Leaves—in Archaeobotany
The original parents’ attempt at modesty—and a fascinating archaeobotanical connection to this earliest of biblical accounts
By
Christopher Eames
• May 16, 2021
Where Did the Red Sea Crossing Take Place?
A recent documentary
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
compares a ‘scientific’ Bitter Lakes crossing theory with a ‘biblical’ Gulf of Aqaba crossing theory. But how biblical—or scientific—is either? Where did the Red Sea crossing take place?
By
Christopher Eames
• May 12, 2021
Shamgar v. the Philistines
:
Evidence for the Biblical Account
Before there was Samson, there was Shamgar: The archaeological evidence for the battles of the judges.
By
Christopher Eames
• May 9, 2021
Were There Giants in Canaan After All?
Corroboration for the biblical account from contemporary ancient sources
By
Christopher Eames
• May 5, 2021
Discovered: Earliest Alphabetic Script in Israel
Brand-new discovery of a ‘missing link’ in the alphabet, predating the next-earliest Levantine alphabetic script by centuries
By
Christopher Eames
• April 14, 2021
‘Against All the Gods of Egypt’
God used the 10 plagues to send a powerful message to Egypt and the Israelites—and to us.
By
Christopher Eames
• April 6, 2021
New Dead Sea Scroll Discovered in ‘Cave of Horror’: Nahum and Zechariah
A massive trove of discoveries found during a survey of Judean Desert caves—including the first such biblical scroll discovered in 60 years.
By
Christopher Eames
• March 31, 2021
Is This Rock Art From the Exodus?
A series of peculiar stone etchings and monuments found in southern Israel that appear to parallel the Exodus account.
By
Christopher Eames
• March 30, 2021
Zeus, Baal and a Rare Bronze Bull Idol Discovered in Greece
A three-millennia-old offering to Zeus—and a link to the infamous deity of the Bible, Baal
By
Christopher Eames
• March 25, 2021
The Annals of Sargon: Evidence of Bible Error—or Insight?
A puzzling series of apparently contradicting accounts describe Israel’s fall. But what if there is more to 2 Kings 18:9-11 than meets the eye?
By
Christopher Eames
• March 23, 2021
The Importance of Context
An archaeology principle for everyday life
By
Christopher Eames
• March 10, 2021
Rare Biblical-Era Figurine Discovered in the Negev
And by an 11-year-old boy, no less.
By
Christopher Eames
• March 8, 2021
On the Archaeological Trail of King Jotham
A journey of three seal stamps, of twisted floors and belligerent Ammonites, from seventh-century
b.c.e.
Edom all the way to the 20th-century antiquities market
By
Christopher Eames
• March 4, 2021
Amos’s Earthquake: A Mountain of Evidence
Nearly 2,800 years ago, a megaquake shook ancient Israel. So says the Bible—and so says a mountain of archaeological evidence. And could it really have been prophesied in advance?
By
Christopher Eames
• February 25, 2021
What Was the ‘Great Fish’ That Swallowed Jonah?
Is the story really entirely impossible?
By
Christopher Eames
• February 11, 2021
Jonah’s Remarkably Accurate Account of Assyria
Gratuitous torture, dimensions, animals, plants and period-specific impotence—a remarkably accurate depiction of the infamous ‘bloody city’ in the book of Jonah
By
Christopher Eames
• February 3, 2021
Fossilized Fish on Mount Everest—Proof of the Flood?
Maybe; evidence of the physics, certainly.
By
Christopher Eames
• February 1, 2021
The Three ‘David’ Inscriptions
Chances are you’ve heard of the famous one from Tel Dan—here are two more.
By
Christopher Eames
• January 28, 2021
Geomagnetism, Hezekiah’s Seals and the ‘Sun Turned Back’
What ancient pottery handles reveal about a major Earth disturbance—and an astounding biblical miracle?
By
Christopher Eames
• January 11, 2021
The War Between Assyrian and Biblical Chronology
But was there ever any real discrepancy to the 8th century B.C.E. timeline?
By
Christopher Eames
• January 7, 2021
Göbekli Tepe, ‘Stone Age Zoo,’ in the Book of Genesis
A ‘Stone Age zoo,’ Aboriginal Australians, booze and worldwide calamity at the earliest temple ever found—discoveries at this fantastical Turkish site parallel a peculiar early biblical setting.
By
Christopher Eames
• January 2, 2021
Evidence That Early Mankind Were ‘Experts’ With Pitch
So use on Noah’s ark should have been no problem
By
Christopher Eames
• December 29, 2020
Christmas Trees—in the Hebrew Bible?
The book of Jeremiah contains a remarkable description of what appears to be Christmas trees. How could this be possible—centuries before the birth of Christianity?
By
Christopher Eames
• December 24, 2020
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