Artifacts that all but identify biblical personalities

The next wonder of the ancient world lies only a few meters beneath the surface, waiting to be revealed.

Does the Sharon Plain of the 10th century b.c.e. reveal the kingdom of David and Solomon?

Are we using the right metrics to judge the United Monarchy?

How archaeological discoveries from Israel’s capital city correspond with biblical history.

Did the events the book of Esther describes really happen?

Chances are you’ve heard of the famous one from Tel Dan—here are two more.

What was the fearsome biblical ‘leviathan’? Could it be a terrifying sea creature discovered in the sands of the Near East—a beast whose scientific name aptly translates to ‘King Lizard’?

A divine sentiment repeated several times in the Bible and also found in a peculiar 3,400-year-old correspondence—what could it mean?

How archaeological discoveries from Judah’s ‘first city’ correspond with biblical history

The book of Isaiah states: ‘The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.’ No artifact proclaims this more than the Great Isaiah Scroll.

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

This is the season when journalists in various fields rush to post their recaps of the year’s most important events.

Where are the bodies?

Is this classic account of creation limited only to Genesis?

The first-and-only bulla belonging to a king of Judah or Israel ever found in archaeological excavations

Archaeology unearths historical fact—and proves the biblical record at the same time.

Near Eastern tablets that name and describe an individual closely matching the biblical patriarch Terah

What did Hezekiah’s kingdom look like after Assyria’s devastating conquest of Judah? The Bible reveals; archaeology corroborates.

Reflections from our namesake following his 1973 meeting with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

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?

How biblical authors used birds for some soaring symbolism

From the biggest of shipwrecks to the smallest of pendants—here’s our list of 2024’s greatest hits in biblical archaeology