Narrative accounts of genocidal violence appear multiple times in the Hebrew Bible. Why are they there and what do they have to do with modern genocides?

Hélène Sader gathers and synthesizes the archaeological and textual evidence from excavations conducted during the past fifty years at Tyre and its far-flung settlements. By incorporating the results…

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class warfare, and catastrophic climate change.   The Babylonian poem Atra-hasis is a…

Memory of the kings of Bia/Urartu: inscribed royal bowls from Western Asia

How Rabbis Became Experts Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity By Krista N. Dalton (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2025), 264 pp.; $

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient roadside caravanserai at the town of ‘Asila’ in North Sinai, offering new clues about the historic network of routes that once connected Egypt…

Archaeologists uncover an early Christian settlement beneath a Roman bath at Türkiye's Apollon Smintheus Sanctuary, revealing a 1,500-year-old

Daniel Sivan, an Israeli Emeritus professor whose decades of scholarship reshaped the study of ancient Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, died on August 6, 2026, in Lehavim, Israel, at the age…

New Book Chronicle: Storytelling in archaeology - Volume 100 Issue 409

Renowned Bible scholar Amy-Jill Levine said she was ‘stunned’ when she was informed of her nomination for the post

In Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey, Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus’s struggle to return to his kingdom in Ithaca after the Trojan War, the

UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologist Jodi Magness, a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences, will consult on a new project to open the ancient Israeli synagogue to the public.

A digital exhibit exploring advanced imagining technology to enable new views and modes of engagement with Judean Pillar Figurines

The ancient Galilean village of Huqoq has emerged as one of the region’s most remarkable archaeological sites, offering an extraordinary window into Jewish li

Across an area only about half the size of Manhattan, the Gaza Strip features hundreds of archaeological and heritage sites, ranging in date from prehistoric ti

A new Tel Aviv University study combines Hasmonean history with evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to solve a decades-old mystery.

A 3,000-year-old limestone anchor bearing a Cypro-Minoan inscription was discovered at Tel Dor, Israel, offering evidence of trade links.

Satellite imagery helps assess destruction from looting during the Syrian civil war.

The Kingdom of Cush, Egypt’s neighbor to the south, played an important role in biblical history despite being one of the lesser known kingdoms. According to 2 Kings 19:9, “Tirhakah, King of Cush”…

Professor Mladen Popović has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of €2.5 million. Under the project title ‘Tracing Tribes and Scrolls’, he and his team...

Thoth was an ancient Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, magic, and the moon. Manifestations of Thoth took the form of two animal species, the sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) and sacred baboo...

Tower of David Museum Chief Curator Eilat Lieber said that "the discovery of the first mold for producing figurines dating to the First Temple period has generated tremendous excitement."

This paper presents a recently discovered incised reed object from Wadi Murabbaʿat Cave 2, in the northern Judaean Desert, that dates to the early second millennium BCE. This is the first reed obje...

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The Walled Oases Complex in north-west Arabia: evidence for a long-term settlement model in the desert - Volume 99 Issue 407

Egyptian archaeological mission uncovers tombs, residential area, and industrial facilities at Tell El-Koa in Ismailia.

A European research team aims to uncover where the world’s oldest biblical manuscripts were written. The project is financed by the European Research Council and assisted by SDUs Faculty of Science…

A significant archaeological breakthrough has been uncovered in the historic district of Matariya, Ain Shams, where excavations at the tomb of “Panehsy” have revealed the first nearly complete…

Jungle is a new and ambitious history of the world, telling the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical…

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Shafaq News Walking into the ruins of Nimrud, an ancient Assyrian capital in Iraq's Nineveh province, Shafaq News' lens paused to take in what remains of one of the great civilizations in history.

The looting of Yemen’s antiquities is surging in areas under Houthi control, as illegal excavations increasingly target historic sites rich in archaeological treasures. Experts accuse influential…

Troy and Rome at the Colosseum: 300 Artifacts Recount the Myth The Colosseum Archaeological Park hosts an exhibition that juxtaposes the worlds of Troy and Rome, combining literary sources and…

What seems like a simple amphora shard, the kind archaeologists find by the thousands in excavations, is actually a recorder of the Earth’s magnetic field with astonishing precision. A team of…

A site near Fureidis, south of Haifa, was occupied by early humans around 300,000 years ago, right before Home Sapiens and Neanderthals emerged in the region

During the early Iron Age, hundreds of sites emerged across the Negev Highlands of southern Israel. These sites have traditionally been interpreted as part of a settled society, such as the United Monarchy,...

This article presents a 7th-century BCE stamp seal from Tel Ḥadid, central Israel, crafted from mother-of-pearl — a material previously undocumented in the southern Levantine stamp seal corpus. Rec...

The park's director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, explains in a documented and visionary book why, precisely in Campania, the word of Christ took root

From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people’s will. What impact did it have in the development of Greek…