You’ve heard of Goliath, but here is a look at the people he represented.

Is the conventional wisdom correct, that we (via Greece) received it from the neighboring Phoenicians—or was it the Israelites? (Part 2)

The Bible provides a remarkable amount of information about King David’s sepulcher.

Is the story really entirely impossible?

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel’s excavation of an ancient fortress city is uncovering some important biblical history.

The archaeological evidence for the battles of the judges

According to scholars from Tel Aviv University: Yes.

A preposterous question, surely. But perhaps you have noticed the artistic depictions. What does the biblical passage that they are derived from really mean?

Getting to know Africa’s great empire through the pages of the Bible and archaeology

What archaeology and classical history have to say about a detestable practice the Bible describes in the heart of Jerusalem

Gratuitous torture, dimensions, animals, plants and period-specific impotence—all a remarkably accurate depiction of the infamous ‘bloody city’ in the book of Jonah.

Another future archaeological find in Jerusalem you should stay tuned for

Dinosaurs, the Ice Age, cavemen: Is the biblical timeline really at odds with scientific discoveries?

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

An Egyptian history far younger than chronologists said? Here’s the decades-old dating battle you probably haven’t heard of, over Egypt’s earliest history.

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

An oft overlooked Egyptian historical testimony is a convoluted tale rife with propaganda and anti-Semitism—but it’s also an admission of the Exodus account.

Chronologically, the story of Cain’s descendants and their deeds is among the earliest accounts in the Bible. But does that make it any less historical?

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel’s excavation of an ancient fortress city is uncovering some important biblical history.

The archaeological story of two often overlooked biblical civilizations