Sometimes the problem with looking for something is that we can’t see the forest for the trees.

Monumental ninth-century b.c.e. construction of an agricultural distribution center

Well, the Bible doesn’t quite say that. But there is a principle—with archaeological precedent.

An inspiring overview of the world’s most important and famous city

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

Israel loses another archaeology giant.

The question is, why?

Slaves in Egypt were on the level of livestock …

A 3,500-square-meter excavation area reveals just a slice of an enormous Jerusalem quarry that was in operation while the second temple was still standing.

Two cylinders found over a decade ago demonstrate the king’s grand reconstruction efforts.

Gold tongues for the Egyptian afterlife—and the ‘sin of Achan’

Massive remains from biblical Gath unearthed in summer excavation.

You’ve read about them—now you can see them.

Dr. Stripling and his team concluded the third season of digging at Tel Shiloh last summer.

The legacy continues.

Recognizing the ‘holy bridge … between East and West’

Investigating the people Israel encountered in the Promised Land

Who was the Persian ‘queen’ referenced in Nehemiah 2:6?

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

Sometimes, all it takes is an animal.