From the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age, this city has a long history that matches the meaning of its name.

Getting to know Africa’s great empire through the pages of the Bible and archaeology

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?

‘[T]he sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives ….’

Some colorful highlights from the inaugural “International Academic Conference on New Studies in Temple Mount Research”

New radiocarbon evidence lays to rest minimalism’s low chronology attempt to redate King Solomon’s city into the ninth century B.C.E.

This bulla is the first extra-biblical proof of the existence of Bethlehem.

Ancient records speaks of an astronomer among the Chaldeans who had a special relationship with ‘the mighty God.’

What artifacts show us about the city—before it became the capital of Israel

Where are the bodies?

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

Following where the evidence leads

A fascinating name change for certain biblical figures provides insight into the religious melee in which they lived.

The archaeological evidence for the battles of the judges

Just how accurate is the biblical portrayal of ancient music?

Even the seemingly unimportant finds validate the biblical record.

The discovery of the oldest apiary in the world adds depth to the biblical account of the Promised Land.

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

From the Nile to the Ophel: Fragment of a late second millennium B.C.E. letter from Egypt’s pharaoh to Jerusalem’s king