JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Israel said on Thursday they had unearthed the oldest Hebrew text ever found, while excavating a fortress city overlooking a valley where the Bible says David slew Goliath. The dig’s uncovering of the past near the ancient battlefield in the Valley of Elah, now home to wineries and a satellite […]
Archaeologists believe a desert site in Jordan may contain the ruins of the elusive King Solomon’s mines. The mines have been the subject of films, including "King Solomon’s Mines," starring Patrick Swayze. Researchers using carbon dating techniques at Khirbat en-Nahas in southern Jordan discovered that copper production took place there around the time King Solomon […]
An Egyptian archaeological team has unearthed a temple and parts of a statue belonging to one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs, in a rare find inside the capital, the official MENA agency has reported. A temple built for 19th dynasty King Ramses II was found in the Ain Shams area in east Cairo, MENA said. […]
Beirut (Lebanon), August 7 : An archaeological excavation team from the British Musuem in Sidon, Lebanon, have unearthed a new grave containing human skeletal remains belonging to a Canaanite warrior, dating back to 4,000 years. According to a report in The Daily Star, the delegation made the discovery at the "Freres" excavation site near Sidon’s […]
"What would be most dramatic is if in fact the treasures that are described by the Copper Scroll—and perhaps revealed more fully in the Key Scroll—are in fact from the second temple. Finding them would in fact be the most dramatic archeological discovery of all time." (Jerusalem)—After a Bedouin shepherd stumbled across a cave containing […]
SAQQARA, Egypt — Egypt unveiled on Thursday a newly uncovered 4,000-year-old “missing pyramid” and a ceremonial procession road where high priests, their faces obscured by masks, once carried mummified sacred bulls worshipped in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. The pyramid was actually a “rediscovery,” said Egypt’s antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass. It is believed to […]
A group of scholars is disputing the positive media coverage given a Jerusalem conference earlier this month on the so-called tomb of Jesus popularized last year by "Titanic" director James Cameron and Jewish investigative journalist and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, saying the majority of experts and academics in attendence either rejected the identification of the site […]
An international excavation team of archeologists led by Dr. Steven Collins, an expert on Biblical archeology from US Trinity Southwestern University, have claimed finding new evidence proving that the Biblical sites of Sodom and Gomorrah – two cities cited in Bible as “destroyed by God for their sins”- were located in Jordan’s Tall al-Hammam in […]
