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Chalk colored fragments from stone vessels found on mt. scopus near jerusalem. Courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority

Feb 20 Blog

Second Temple Period Workshop Discovered Near Jerusalem

A recently uncovered stone vessel production workshop east of Jerusalem is shedding light on craft production during the late Second Temple period (first century BCE–first […]

Jul 31 Blog

Building Second Temple Jerusalem

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Excavations in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim neighborhood continue to reveal a massive stone quarry, which can now be counted as the largest ever discovered from the […]

May 29 Blog

Second Temple Period Receipt Found in the City of David

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

During a salvage excavation of a 19th-century excavation tunnel underneath the City of David, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) discovered a fragmentary inscription […]

Jan 2 Blog

New Excavations of the Cave of Salome

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A 2,000-year-old burial cave associated with Salome—a character from the apocryphal Gospel of James who some early Christians believed help deliver the baby Jesus—has been […]

Jul 25 Blog

Remains Found at Gethsemane

By: Jonathan Laden

Near the modern Gethsemane Church, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, excavations have revealed the remains of a Second Temple period mikveh (ritual […]

Nov 8 Blog

Second Temple Period Jars Found

By: Jonathan Laden

Clay objects and dozens of jars were found in what had been a water hole at the Khirbet Kafr Mer site in Beit El, on […]

Feb 12 Blog

Lost Books, Scribal Authority, and Abraham against the Egyptians in Genesis Apocryphon

By: Andrew Perrin

Any time that a character in the Bible discovers, accesses, or writes a book, it’s significant. Yet are these mentions of media about an actual […]

Jan 13 Blog

Market along Jerusalem’s Pilgrimage Road Found

By: Jonathan Laden

Archaeologists have found rare 2,000-year-old measurement tools that indicate a major town square. In a rare find, they unearthed the top of a table used […]

The City of David from the air, looking north.

Jul 17 Blog

Road “Where Jesus Walked” is Re-opened to Public

By: BAS Staff

After six years of excavations, Israel has officially opened the ancient Pilgrim’s road, a 2,000-year-old stepped stone path that connected the Pool of Siloam, where […]

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