These boxes weren’t ‘his.’ Yeshu, Jesus, was a common name in antiquity, authorities explain.
The IAA displays artifacts from the time of Jesus . . . we can know so much about the world in which He lived. But His words are what give us access to Him.
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. What have we learned over the past three score and ten? First, it has
Source: The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy – ASOR Blog
For an update on the current state of theorizing about the DDS (Dead Sea Scraps) . . . Good to see that monolithic theories are fading . . .
Researchers from the National Technical University of Athens have warned that the sacred site in Jerusalem is at a ‘very real risk’ of collapsing as it is discovered it lies on unstable ground.
Source: Jerusalem tomb of Jesus at risk of ‘catastrophic’ collapse | Daily Mail Online
Restored, but still in danger … the saga of the Holy Sepulchre. This article has good photos and a history of the site.
In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text.
Source: Ancient Parchments Reveal Old Texts Concealed by Newer Ones
I expect some wonderful and interesting discoveries from the oldest Christian library never disrupted by raids or war.
The statue is just the type of artifact archaeologists hoped to recover before further building in a teeming neighborhood makes such treasures impossible to find.
Source: Statue Being Pulled From a Gritty Patch of Cairo Could Be of Ramses – The New York Times
Ramses is sometimes identified as the pharaoh of the Exodus, but his date is too late for standard Biblical chronology. The carving seems amazing.