Levant Biblical Archaeology

• Biblical tensions: Snakes appear as tempters in Genesis 3 and fiery afflictors in Numbers 21, while Leviticus 11 classifies reptiles as unclean for...

The Chronicler rewrote earlier biblical texts in the fourth century BCE to address a key question: why reshape material already known to his...

• IAA teams spent two weeks exposing the 25-ton mikvah, inserting steel beams and using a 300-ton crane for safe extraction ahead of construction.
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Modern vineyards in the Judean Hills sit directly on ancient agricultural terraces cultivated for millennia, linking today's winemakers to...

古代加沙凭借地中海贸易路线，不仅吸引商人，更成为学者与哲学家交流思想的知识枢纽，拜占庭时期普罗科匹乌斯的贡献印证了其学术地位。 这视角有助于从圣经时代后的长时段理解加沙及周边的文化历史。

Notley states 100% confidence that El-Araj is Bethsaida after a decade of work, citing consistent finds since 2016 with nothing to challenge the...

A simple sandbox treasure hunt misses the point. Build layered soil in a trough to reveal stratigraphy naturally, with children discovering that lower...

Food remains position ancient Hama in Western Syria as a thriving hub on extensive trade routes from the Late Chalcolithic onward, illuminating its urban commercial role and daily economic life.

Ancient practitioners treated induced vomiting and bitterness as the meaningful core of ritual, not side effects, because they symbolized literal and...

Could natural fires have sparked Neolithic pottery in the southern Levant?

• Timing match: Intense wildfires peaked 9,500–8,200 years ago, followed...

A well-preserved tomb at Saqqara reveals the administrative world of late Fifth Dynasty Egypt through the careers of judge Yunmin and his father...

A gold ring engraved with the "good shepherd" motif—one of the earliest Christian symbols of salvation—offers direct iconographic evidence of...

Deuteronomy functions less as a law code and more as a manual for self-definition, writing “Israel” into existence by training subjects to monitor...

Levitical law was never an abstract rulebook but the practical framework teaching rescued Israel how to live out God's holiness in every corner of...

The Bar Kokhba Revolt emerges as direct Jewish resistance to Hadrian's religious-political program of building a hybridized Jerusalem. This historical framing offers useful context for understanding ancient Israel's struggles in the Levant.

Newly documented inscriptions from Akmoneia in ancient Phrygia reveal the religious landscape Christianity encountered.

• A first-to-third century...

Ugaritic tablets from Ras Shamra offer the clearest view of Canaanite religion, naming gods and myths that frame the Hebrew Bible's world.

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Sapienza University's multidisciplinary team has completed the first systematic excavation of the Holy Sepulchre complex and is now advancing...

Bedouin shepherds' chance find of seven scrolls in a Qumran cave in 1947 sparked the recovery of 900-1,000 manuscripts from eleven caves,...

This study delivers a critical interdisciplinary synthesis of biblical, canonical, liturgical, and epigraphical sources to reconstruct the development of religious institutions and practices.