While written in Aramaic, several of these words have an apparent Greek origin. Critics in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...

It was supposed to be a simple salvage operation to repair a crumbling Hasmonean tower. But after late archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar and her team started excavating, they soon realized that this ...

Babylon was the mightiest city of the ancient Near East. Hanging gardens and grand ziggurats lined the bustling streets. Temples and palaces stretched near the banks of the Euphrates River, which ...

What kind of incredible beast was the biblical leviathan? Speculation as to the identity of this sea creature has gone on for millennia. Leviathan is mentioned in a handful of passages throughout the ...

Welcome to the 2026 Ophel excavation—a joint project of the Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University and the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology. This season we will once again be ...

In 1997, Dr. Eilat Mazar published her hypothesis in Biblical Archaeology Review that David’s palace was located outside the walls of the ancient city of Jerusalem. “If some regard as too speculative ...

Were the ancient Israelites ever really slaves in Egypt? Were the plagues real? Did the Exodus really happen? The subject of Israel’s sojourn in Egypt has been asked, debated, examined and reexamined ...

How much time elapsed from the first man, Adam, to the Flood, and then on into the age of the patriarchs? It’s a biblical question that seems fairly straightforward based on the chronogenealogies ...

In 1993, the discovery of an inscription in northern Israel rocked the archaeological world. Contained within the ninth-century b.c.e. script was the following word: ביתדוד, bytdwd, translated as ...

They were ancient Israel’s eastern neighbors, dwelling in the plains of Jordan. At times their oppressors, and at other times subservient to the Israelites, these people were connected on a very ...

He is known as one of the Holy City’s greatest rebuilders. Yet for millennia, evidence of his existence has remained buried beneath Jerusalem’s dust. What did remain of him was a story—an entire ...

A beautiful landscape connects Israel’s Coastal Plain to the Shephelah (Judean foothills) west of Jerusalem. Cutting through the Shephelah are pleasant valleys filled with fertile farmlands. These ...