The added detail of “21st century” is important here—because these add to a corpus of more than 30,000 known Hittite tablets ...

It was during these excavations that Avigad uncovered the remains of a colossal 7-meter-wide Iron Age wall on Jerusalem’s ...

Discovered nearly 150 years ago, the Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most important archaeological testimonies to the legacy of ...

It’s a classic question in biblical archaeology: Can this biblical individual be verified through archaeological means? And the past two centuries of archaeological discovery have yielded up an ...

In summer 2025, Celtic Throne became the first major international show to tour Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. The troupe, which includes children and teenagers, didn’t come despite the war in Gaza. It ...

Nebuchadnezzar ii is one of the most infamous kings of the Bible. He is particularly known for the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e., and for his relationship with the Prophet ...

Where is Mount Sinai, the biblical mountain of God? Conventional wisdom has long held it to be in the southern Sinai Peninsula, identifying it with Jabal Musa (“Moses Mountain”). This traditional ...

The story of the Israelites in Egypt and the Exodus is, of course, best known from the biblical account—chiefly, the Torah (Pentateuch), the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, ascribed by text and ...