New analysis of an ancient Levantine artifact may have revealed a reference to a key figure of the Old Testament of the Bible. Two French scholars say they’ve identified a reference to the “House of ...

The Bible claims to record a ton of events that took place in history over the past few thousand years. If the Bible is true and historical, then the more that archaeologists dig and unearth layers of ...

Researchers have verified with a considerable degree of certainty that the Mesha Stele – a basalt stone slab discovered in 1868 east of the Dead Sea – contains explicit references to King David. Also ...

Mr. Louis Dyor, M. A., gave the second of his three lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking as his special subject "The Cretan Alphabets." He said in part ...

In 1883, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira announced the discovery of a remarkable artefact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea.

IT was perfectly natural that the discovery in 1868 of the famous Moabite Stone, which created such a sensation all over the civilised world, should have made literary and scientific men wish to ...

The historicity of the Bible, or the Christian book’s acceptability as a history, is a controversial and contested field study. Few archaeological discoveries have so far supported many of the Old ...

13:35, Fri, Jul 31, 2020 Updated: 13:35, Fri, Jul 31, 2020 Although the Israelite King Omri does not feature prominently in scripture, archaeology has shed more light on his reign. In particular, Omri ...

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