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First Person: Should Israel Return the Tablets of the Law to Egypt?
Hershel Shanks’s First Person as it appeared in the September/October 2012 Issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. In 1969, barely two years after the 1967 Six-Day War, a team of Israeli archaeologists...
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Mikveh Discovery Highlights Ritual Bathing in Second Temple Period Jerusalem
Archaeologist Benyamin Storchan at the newly-discovered mikveh. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority. Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered a mikveh (a Jewish ritual bath) in Jerusalem’s Qiryat...
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A Monumental Underwater Structure in the Sea of Galilee
What is a monumental ancient stone structure doing in the Sea of Galilee? In a recent issue of The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Israeli archaeologists, geophysicists and...
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Not Fit for a King?
May 2014 Update: In the May/June 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Hershel Shanks examines the evidence for and against Netzer’s tomb discovery in Herodium, and suggests an alternate...
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Scholarship Winners Speak Up
Every year, the BAS Dig Scholarship program provides students and aspiring archaeologists with the ability to volunteer at ancient sites in Israel and Jordan. In 2013, BAS awarded more than 20...
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Found After 1400 Years—The Magnificent Nea
Meir Ben-Dov’s article “Found After 1400 Years—The Magnificent Nea” was originally published in the December 1977 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. We’ve released the full article for free to mark...
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Biblical Archaeology: Whither and Whence
GIANTS AT WORK. Biblical archaeologists Eric and Carol Meyers sit down with BAR’s editor to discuss the past 40 years of archaeology in the land of the Bible. Photo: Robert Sugar.Duke professors Eric...
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Archaeologists on Crutches
Read “Archaeologists on Crutches” by Benjamin Arubas, Shay Bar and Hershel Shanks in full as it originally appears in Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2016.—Ed. Yoram Tsafrir. Photo:...
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Remembering Trude Dothan
Trude Dothan (1922–2016)Professor Trude Dothan, among the pantheon of Israeli archaeologists whose intensive research in Philistine and Mediterranean studies dramatically broadened the scope of Israeli...
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Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City
Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City By Amnon Ben-Tor (Israel Exploration Society and Biblical Archaeology Society, 2016), 232 pp. and 138 color illust., $40 (hardcover) Reviewed by William G....
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