The Givati Parking Lot excavations at the northwestern edge of the City of David have upended our ideas about what ancient Jerusalem looked like. A sensational new discovery has revealed the city had a moat. Not one that contained water but rather a monumental artificial valley that separated the northern part of the city (the Ophel and Temple Mount) from the southern region (the City of David), serving as a distinguishing feature of the city during the days of the biblical kings. On today’s program, host Christopher Eames interviews Givati Parking Lot excavations co-director Dr. Yiftah Shalev to find out the latest about this astonishing topographical feature being uncovered at the site.

Co-director of the Ophel Excavations in Jerusalem delivers a lecture at Armstrong Auditorium on the campus of Herbert W. Armstrong College

Another season has come to an end. Here is this year’s end-of-season slideshow.

The beginning of the end for the northern kingdom of Israel

Dr. Eilat Mazar recounts the discovery of the Jehucal bulla to Stephen Flurry.

Less than a week remains to see the the Tel Dan Stele on display at Armstrong Auditorium in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Ophel excavation co-director Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat shows a new find from the Roman Period.

Armstrong International Cultural Foundation (AICF) announces the world premiere of “Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah Discovered”—an archaeological exhibit that tells the dramatic story of ancient Judah’s most famous king-prophet partnership.

A somewhat belated discussion about another amazing year of discovery

New details about the Mt. Ebal inscription

Talking with the City of David Foundation about an excavation two decades in the making

History records several major, famous conflicts that took place during the same chronological window as the Hebrew Bible. Yet for various reasons, these battles are not mentioned in the Bible. Or are they?

But who was Eleazar, exactly?

Possible evidence of Zephaniah’s great-grandfather

The discovery of a cache of hundreds of slingstones from the Chalcolithic period speaks to mankind’s perpetual cycle of war.

Dr. Eilat Mazar completes an archaeological journey spanning almost two centuries.

“Whoever wore it was certainly affluent.”

What a miniature discovery says about a Herculean hero

The earliest evidence of bronze production in the southern Levant—with links to Edom’s surge in copper production

An infamous number from the New Testament book of Revelation, but it is also found in the Hebrew Bible. Does it carry the same negative connotations?