CHICAGO – Professorial colleagues think Ron Tappy has made a landmark breakthrough in our understanding of the world of the Bible. He himself is waiting for the other shoe to drop. This week, Tappy will formally unveil his discovery at the meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Normally a presentation titled “The 2005 […]
An Israeli researcher said he has made a Goliath of a find – the first archaeological evidence suggesting the biblical story of David slaying the Philistine giant actually took place. A shard of pottery unearthed in a decade-old dig in southern Israel carried an inscription in early Semitic style spelling "Alwat and "Wlt", likely Philistine […]
I have received a lot of questions concerning my last article about the discoveries and their relevance to biblical prophecy. It seems there is enough interest in that subject for me to deal with it in the present article. In the next article I will share with you the interview with an eye witness of […]
Israeli archaeologists on Saturday said they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries, and include references to Jesus and […]
Grave robbing has thrived in Egypt from the days of the ancients. The tombs of royals and the elite were most at risk, since they contained great riches in the form of valuable funerary objects including gold jewellery and domestic objects inlaid with precious stones, alabaster and faience. Even the graves of the poor, however, […]
Egyptian archaeologists recently found hundreds of amazing artifacts, which were lying under layers of dirt in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, reports the London-based daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat. The artifacts, which include mummies and coffins, were found inside dusty cases, which were forgotten for decades in the museum’s basement. Following the theft of […]
Most comparisons of language and inherited traits consider whether genetic patterns conform with expected relationships observed by linguists. But few have considered the use of genetic data to support specific hypotheses raised by linguists regarding the relationships between language families. In a forthcoming article in Current Anthropology, Francisco M. Salzano (Federal University of Rio Grande […]
While periodic claims continue to surface purporting to debunk the Shroud of Turin as a hoax — including one made earlier this year by an Idaho academic — one local scientist has no doubt that the cloth covered the crucified Christ and has survived intact for nearly two millennia. Eugenia Nitowski, an archaeologist and former nun, bases […]
