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 ...

According to excavation directors Dr. Benyamin Storchan and Gil Freid, the Lower Aqueduct was an “impressive engineering ...

The translators of the King James Version (kjv) of the Bible generally used apt and accurate words to translate the original Hebrew. But a few words stumped them. When they couldn’t find the ...

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

When it comes to examining the history of the Persian Empire through the lens of the Bible, some of the books that come most readily to mind are Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. These books record events, ...

The Bible describes in grand portrayal the arrival of Jacob and his family into Egypt and their settlement in Goshen—the northeastern Delta region—as a powerful ruling family. But is there any ...

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 ...

The word “tithe” comes from the Old English tēotha, meaning a “tenth”—with the verb “tithing” (tēothian) broadly descriptive of the act of paying a tenth of one’s income in support of a religious ...

Scientists believe that the human body is made up of 25 elements, each essential for human life. Each one of these is found in the Earth’s crust. The Bible indicated this roughly 3,400 years prior to ...

In the book of Jonah, the city of Nineveh is described as being so large it took three days to cross (Jonah 3:3). Modern excavators have measured the city walls, and it seems traversing the city, wall ...