And other peculiarities about this unusual king of ‘abominations’

A special coin (produced at the temple itself?) found by a young sifting project volunteer

A peculiar antediluvian individual we unwittingly reference in everyday language

Sometimes the problem with looking for something is that we can’t see the forest for the trees.

Spoiler alert: It’s just as the Bible describes (although you might have missed it).

A destroyed Seleucid fortress near the Lachish forest—courtesy the Hasmonean revolt

A once-in-a-lifetime discovery of a pendant thought to belong to a relative of King Richard iii

Beneath a peculiar English translation lies a scripture far more brutal (and a warning to the stubborn).

New research reveals some of the most ‘advanced’ eyes of the animal kingdom—from one of the ‘earliest’ creatures of the animal kingdom.

Tel Motza hosted a pagan shrine displaying a Canaanite deity—a find characterized as ‘surprising.’ Here’s why it’s not.

It’s often regarded as one of the most overtly pagan of the ‘Christian’ festivals—and is nowhere found in the New Testament. But is there mention of its origins in the Hebrew Bible?

Long before Sparta’s 300, there was Gideon’s.

A striking Jerusalem gemstone believed to contain the first depiction of a famous ancient perfume ingredient

A peculiar biblical personality and a peculiar Egyptian princess

Uncovered: A multimillion-liter wine-making industry (with a biblical origin?)

A 2,700-year-old toilet discovered in a mansion on the outskirts of the capital

Car-size rodents, elephant-size sloths, dinosaur-size elephants: How Pleistocene megafauna relate to the peculiar biblical antediluvian period

A small, inconspicuous artifact, for which there is more than meets the eye

Scientists have discovered an inscription bearing the name of a biblical judge.