Artifacts that all but identify biblical personalities

Carbon dating can be an extremely helpful archaeological tool. But is it the reliable, objective silver-bullet solution it is often portrayed to be?

2,500 years after his reign, a handful of archaeological discoveries bring this biblical governor of Samaria back to life.

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

So goes a recent claim. If only the biblical authors had remembered to cite their sources … or did they?

Excavating, publishing and sharing Israel’s biblical history has never been more important.

The ancient Habiru battled their way through Canaan during the 14th century b.c.e. Who were these people?

Three successive articles in the Israel Exploration Journal take aim at the Mount Ebal ‘Curse Inscription.’ Do they provide the knockout blow?

A compelling new study shows Jerusalem at the time of David and Solomon was more a bustling city than a quiet village.

The recent death of one of Israel’s great archaeologists—and a warm friend of our namesake, Herbert W. Armstrong

Excavating the time of David and beyond at Abel Beth Maacah

From the biggest of shipwrecks to the smallest of pendants—here’s our list of 2024’s greatest hits in biblical archaeology

From the biggest of shipwrecks to the smallest of pendants—here’s our list of 2024’s greatest hits in biblical archaeology.

After three weeks of excavation, our work at Jerusalem’s royal quarter has ended. We had a successful and productive season in an area of the Ophel that has not been touched since Dr. Eilat Mazar’s 2009-2010 excavations. In today’s episode, Let the Stones Speak co-host Christopher Eames interviews excavation director Prof. Yosef Garfinkel about his perspective on the season and the future of the site.

Is there really no proof of the first and second temples?

What history and archaeology tell us about the ancient world’s ‘red men’

Recognizing the “holy bridge between East and West”