New details about the Mt. Ebal inscription

A revolutionary artifact with several lines of text ‘centuries older than any known Hebrew inscription from Israel’—and paralleling several scriptures regarding Israel’s entry into Canaan

And the latest unfounded attack against using the Bible in archaeology.

The one biblical book suspiciously missing from this massive corpus of scriptural manuscripts—or is it?

And the man who had Judah’s first governor assassinated

A shipwreck discovery off Israel’s coast reveals an ancient connection with Cyprus and Sardinia.

An exciting discovery from one of the few biblical pharaohs confirmed by archaeology

It’s a peculiar ‘love fest’ numbered among the ‘Christian’ holidays. But its real origin is much earlier than the third-century ‘St. Valentine.’

The ‘miracles, wars, kings and prophets’ narrative of the Bible doesn’t indicate anything about gut parasites—or does it?

Archaeology in Jerusalem is often unfairly demonized by agenda-driven journalists as the work of ‘Zionists’ in opposition to Palestinians. This could not be further from the truth—as the Mazar excavations in particular attest.

Archaeologists uncover a ritual table stone, with peculiar parallels to the biblical account of the lost ark.

Coronavirus lockdowns once again interrupted archaeological excavations in Israel in 2021, but it didn’t prevent the discovery of some marvelous artifacts and revelations. Here’s our selection of the top finds of 2021, in ascending order of significance.