The founding of the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology is complete.

New information sheds light on the pagan use of tattoos in Egypt.

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It’s a common charge, that the presence of Aramaic in certain biblical texts is “proof” of late authorship. But with the book of Jonah, it’s rather more nuanced …

It wasn’t what Dr. Mazar uncovered that rankled scholarly critics—it was that her findings matched the biblical narrative.

Archaeology proves the famous biblical account of a desperate attempt to fortify the Holy City.

A look at the Abrahamic-era construction around the Gihon Spring

First it was King Hezekiah, then Isaiah the prophet. Now evidence has been discovered of another royal official from the same time period.

And other peculiarities about this unusual king of ‘abominations’

Scriptural phrases that have been confirmed in the archaeological record

What it’s like to volunteer on the Ophel excavation

How a lost empire confirms biblical history

Proof of the biblical kings abounds. What, if anything, about the prophets?

An alternative theory to the Documentary Hypothesis, relating to the earliest composition of the Bible

Archaeologists have found King Sennacherib’s 2,700-year-old siege ramp—built from a Canaanite city wall 1,000 years older

An accidental grass fire engulfs Tel Gezer.

A striking Jerusalem gemstone believed to contain the first depiction of a famous ancient perfume ingredient

How could 4 x 15 = 45? How a confounding equation led translators to begin ‘correcting’ the biblical text more than 2,000 years ago—and its solution.

What a 3,000-year-old artifact reveals about royal Solomonic construction

Get to know the artifacts that call the University of Oxford home.

Where did this famous medical symbol come from?

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