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An exclusive interview with researcher Stephen Compton

The latest foolhardy attack to take down biblical kings David and Solomon

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.

An ostracon discovered by visitors at Tel Lachish, bearing the name of Queen Esther’s father-in-law

A new study reveals a millennium-long trade monopoly

Debate over events aside—how the detailed, eyewitness-style, Egyptianized language within the Torah points clearly to an Israelite experience in Egypt

A new discovery highlights the biblical account of ancient Israel’s size.

What two recently discovered coins reveal about two vastly different periods in Judah

Archaeology corroborates the invasion of the earliest pharaoh named in the biblical account.

Dr. Mazar leaves behind a rich legacy of biblically significant discoveries including the discovery of King David’s Palace, Nehemiah’s Wall, the Solomonic gate of Jerusalem, as well as numerous discoveries related to biblical figures.

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

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

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

And evidence for the much-debated era of the Exodus

Another archaeological excavation has yielded further proof of Israel’s greatest-ever monarch

Another archaeological excavation has yielded further proof of Israel’s greatest-ever monarch.

A reanalysis of two bullae calls into question the dismissal that they are forgeries.

The tomb shows this trade was active in the times of the prophets—as supported by the Bible.

How a tablet of an enslaved king’s rations sheds light on biblical accuracy