Arutz 7 reports: Archaeologists Find Temple-Era Building, Inscriptions The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday that a large building containing what it called "an amazing wealth of inscriptions" dating from the eighth century BCE has been discovered in the Umm Tuba area at the southern ...

Arabs and their supporters have several pet projects. One is making sure Israelis and Jews can't make firm scientific claims about our past. So, when archeological digs are to be exacavted, all hell breaks loose. The dig at what is called the Givati Parking Lot just outside the Old City walls, east ...

It's now mostly confirmed that the "hobbit" skeleton found a few years back in Indonesia is a unique species. "Hobbit" Skull Study: Species Not Human Newswise — In a an analysis of the size, shape and asymmetry of the cranium of Homo floresiensis, Karen Baab, Ph.D., a researcher in the Department ...

[image source] The cross-disciplinary trend in the sciences is very cool. The more we see that things are interconnected, the better we will understand our world and our place in it. The new field of archeogenetics brings us one step closer. Our Past Within Us The new field known as archeogenetics i...

Haaretz reports (it must choke them to do so) Rare first century half shekel coin found in Temple Mount dirt A rare half shekel coin, first minted in 66 or 67 C.E., was discovered by 14 year-old Omri Ya'ari as volunteers sifted through mounds of dirt from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The coin is t...

Our family just began subscribing to National Geographic this fall, and so I was excited to see the December issue's cover story on the recent excavation and discovery of King Herod's tomb in Israel.  The magazine does it's usual gold-standard job of providing beautiful photographs...

There are several things that we can be sure of when dealing with the media.  First, they rarely understand Christianity to the extent they think they understand Christianity.  Secondly, when they do a documentary on the Bible, it is to refute this text of Scripture. Now enters the Public Broadcas...

Ethan Bronner, "Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection" (New York Times, July 6, 2008):JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological ...

The release of inscriptions from a three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing quiet a stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it appears to speak of a messiah who will rise from the dea...

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