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

It’s one of the biggest questions in the world of biblical archaeology: Who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? We explored this question in detail in the March-April 2023 issue of Let the Stones Speak ...

Revealed: A 2,700-Year-Old Depiction of Jerusalem and King Hezekiah (Exclusive Interview) Around 170 years ago, British archaeologist Sir Austin Henry Layard excavated much of Assyrian King ...

“I don’t believe in carbon-14 dating at all,” said Egypt’s premier Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on a recent viral Joe Rogan podcast. “And it’s not working in Egypt until today.” The 78-year-old Hawass ...

In February, archaeologists from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (sca) of Egypt announced the completion of a two-year excavation of a 3,000-year-old gold processing complex at the Sukari gold mine ...

Excavations at el-Ahwat in the highlands of ancient Israel have uncovered the earliest evidence of bronze production in the entire southern Levant, with links to Edom’s surge in copper production in ...

According to Dr. Robert Kool, head of the Numismatics Department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Dr. Haim Gitler, chief curator of archaeology and curator of numismatics at the Israel Museum, ...

Ophel Excavation co-director Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat discusses the discovery of an early Roman Period ashlar stone with a builder’s mark. The Ophel Excavation in Jerusalem is a joint project of the ...

The biblical city of Ai was one of three cities that met a fiery demise when the Israelites conquered the Promised Land: “So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap …” (Joshua 8:28). Over the years, ...

On April 12, Mohammad Ebrahim Zarei, head of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Iran, announced the discovery of three stone quarries in the Kabir Kuh mountains on the western ...

Did Nimrod really build the Tower of Babel? Or, put another way—setting aside questions of historicity for now—does the biblical account imply that Nimrod built the Tower of Babel? For many, the ...