Two cylinders found over a decade ago demonstrate the king’s grand reconstruction efforts.

A recent excavation at Horvat Tevet has uncovered evidence of Assyrian dominance in seventh-century b.c.e. Jezreel Valley.

Evidence against the existence of kosher laws? Hardly; rather, a fascinating parallel to a contemporary Bible passage

Around 170 years ago, British archaeologist Sir Austin Henry Layard excavated much of Assyrian King Sennacherib’s palace in ancient Nineveh. In the royal throne room, there stood a stunning 3-meter-high carving of a majestic city that was utterly unique in all of Sennacherib’s reliefs. Atop the tallest tower in the city was one individual holding up a royal standard. Could this be a depiction of ancient Jerusalem and could the lone figure be Judah’s King Hezekiah, of whom Sennacherib boasted that he besieged as a “bird in a cage.”

The archive has often been linked with the Israelite conquest, yet there’s no mention of the chief protagonist, Joshua. Or is there?

An interview with Prof. Michael Langlois

Featuring a look at Naboth’s vineyard

1993 was a momentous year for archaeology as the Tel Dan Stele threw light on the biblical King David.

An ancient Babylonian clay prism confirms two biblical kings and the accuracy of the Bible narrative.

So use on Noah’s ark should have been no problem

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

Was the miracle of Joshua’s long day just an eclipse?

Grisly carnage at the famous Roman city hearkens back to the destruction of the original ‘sin cities.’

Along the ‘way of the land of the Philistines’

The original parents’ attempt at modesty—and a fascinating archaeobotanical connection to this earliest of biblical accounts

Growing evidence of Jerusalem as a thriving city in the third century B.C.E.

We know what the Bible says. What does archaeology say?

Could these be the very tiles from the Acra of Antiochus IV Epiphanes?

Hittites in second millennium b.c.e. Anatolia there were—but Hittites in second millennium b.c.e. Canaan?

A biblical conundrum sometimes characterized as killing the early Exodus and conquest theory. Does it?