Are we using the right metrics to judge the United Monarchy?

Analysis of a tomb in Israel reveals ties with Egyptian administration.

A recent excavation at Horvat Tevet has uncovered evidence of Assyrian dominance in seventh-century b.c.e. Jezreel Valley.

Only one biblical book is missing from the massive corpus of manuscripts. Or is it?

Shedding light on the setting for the book of Esther

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

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

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.

An ancient cultic site gives a new window into early urbanization in Israel.

A small clay tablet, history’s ‘earliest signature,’ beer, and a fierce auction fight

The unusual species that once roamed ancient Israel

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

Along the ‘way of the land of the Philistines’

A lookout post possibly built at the command of David’s father-in-law, the king of Geshur

Written around the time of King Solomon, this special artifact provides insight into the Hebrew calendar.

Recent excavations reveal an impressive Hasmonean wall was peacefully dismantled. Why?

Surely no one could live for 900 years.

A 3,800-year-old mudbrick passageway provides key information about the spread of such arches to the southern Levant.

A new tablet confirms precedent for the biblical account

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.

The question is, why?

Slaves in Egypt were on the level of livestock …