Archaeology

“Each year, on an almost daily basis, archaeological discoveries help us better understand the Bible and affirm its details about people, events, and culture.” - CToday

“When the half-shekel tax was brought to the Temple during the First Temple period, there were no coins, so they used silver ingots. In order to calculate the weight of these silver pieces they would put them on one side of the scales and on the other side they placed the Beka weight.” - Christian Headlines

“The Museum of the Bible said Monday that five of its 16 famous Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are fake. … The fragments will no longer be displayed at the museum.” - NPR

“A message from one of the last two untranslated Dead Sea Scrolls may contain a clue to help Bible scholars reconstruct the chronology of Jesus’ final week on earth.” BPNews

“Professor Jonathan Ben-Dov and Dr. Eshbal Ratson of Haifa University pieced together disparate scroll sections over one year to decipher their composite meaning.” WRN

“Israeli archaeologists working for Israel Antiquities Authority dug up an ancient artifact, a clay seal dating back 2,700 years, in Jerusalem’s Old City . This artifact may have belonged to the city’s governor during the First Temple period.” WRN

“Archaeologists believe they may have solved a mystery: the location of Bethsaida, the biblical town that was home to the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.” BPNews

“For the first time, scientists have sequenced ancient Canaanite genomes after sequencing DNA material recovered from five Canaanite individuals who lived some 4,000 years [ago] in present day Lebanon.” UPI

Arch of Titus panel commemorating the Siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) - originally a color panel

“[A] conservation team from the National Technical University of Athens has unsealed the tomb for the first time since at least 1555. To their surprise they found the original limestone cave walls and the burial bed still intact, despite centuries of damage and the reconstruction of the church that surrounds it.” World