CU-Boulder prof employs 23 ancient Near East languages in a quest for biblical understanding By Clay Evans Published in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. Click here for a link to the original article ...

Ruins near the ancient biblical city of Jericho have been declared a World Heritage Site, with some Israeli officials bristling at the move.

Archaeologists revealed that the first apiary (beehive colony) dating from the Biblical period has been found in excavations in Israel's Beth Shean Valley. This is the earliest apiary to be ...

A verse in the Bible says God commanded the ancient Israelites to "utterly destroy" the Canaanites, among other peoples. And the disappearance of the the latter group from history suggested some ...

Archaeologists have evidence that they believe proves an ancient biblical battle took place at a site known as ‘Armageddon’. Megiddo is also said to be the location where the Battle of ...

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL artefact known as the Madaba Map can confirm the Biblical record, a scripture expert has astonishingly claimed.

Texts from the ancient Near East tell of powerful neighbors—Egyptians, Arameans, Assyrians, and Babylonians—attacking the lands of Israel and Judah.

Most importantly, the Hebrew Bible – what Christians call “the Old Testament” – emerged primarily in the ancient Near East, while the New Testament emerged in the early Roman Empire.

Israeli and US scientists identify the contents of an ancient Hebrew scroll, using X-ray technology to see inside the fragile relic.

Researchers say Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for the first time shown that two scribes wrote part of the mysterious ancient Dead Sea Scrolls.

"Cutting edge technology" reveals how scribes foiled modern scholars with one of the Biblical texts.