The ‘Problem’ of Where Ancient Jerusalem Was Built Gets Thornier
A new find near the Temple Mount suggests that the ‘City of David’ was more likely a suburb of ancient Jerusalem.
A new find near the Temple Mount suggests that the ‘City of David’ was more likely a suburb of ancient Jerusalem.
After a century, a legendary North Frisian city that has lived in church sermons, chronicles, and art across the region for six centuries has been found.
An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced Thursday.
Researchers find evidence at site of historic Black church.Read full piece
The first phase of excavation has ended for a Colonial Williamsburg archaeology project aiming to help tell the story of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church, one of America’s oldest churches founded by free and enslaved Blacks.Read full piece
The prayer vigil Sunday served to bless an archaeological project that hopes to unearth signs of that building — First Baptist’s first physical home. The church was organized in 1776 as a congregation of free and enslaved Blacks.Read full piece
Major archaeological discoveries will have to wait until next year, at least.Read full piece
Tony Cartledge reflects on the need to remove Confederate monuments, finding similarities in the ancient world in Egypt and Rome.Read full piece
Tony Cartledge reflects on an archaeological find in Jerusalem dating to the time of the biblical kings Hezekiah and Manasseh.Read full piece
After Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth, Texas, ended its archaeology program, the school’s former president, Paige Patterson, connected outgoing professors to Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.Read full piece