Life in Bible Times

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (282+ words) Israel has launched its first project under the new “Biblical Trails in Judea and Samaria” initiative, a large-scale regional tourism development program, Israel’s Tourism Ministry said on Wednesday. The “Joshua Trail,” whose costs totaled 3.2 million shekels (~$1 million), is the first…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (396+ words) Israel has begun work on a NIS 3.2 million tourism trail in that will link the Elon Moreh Heritage Center to the Mount Kabir Nature Reserve, the first project in a wider government initiative to develop biblical tourism routes across Judea…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (803+ words) Sue Dickson This summer saw the conclusion of a project to restore one of the Vale of Glamorgan’s historic wells. Samson’s Well in Llantwit Major has been a watering place on the outskirts of the old town for many centuries,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (138+ words) A 1,600-year-old mosaic depicts Samson holding the gates of Gaza. The 1,600-year-old mosaic depicting biblical hero Samson, unearthed after over a decade of excavations at the ancient Jewish village of Hukok in the Lower Galilee, went on public display for…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (817+ words) Steve Linde | JNS More than three decades after an extraordinary archaeological discovery near Qumran sparked worldwide attention and fierce debate, a new research project is seeking to determine whether a mysterious reddish-brown substance unearthed in a sealed cave could be…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (941+ words) A 3-year-old girl found a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab amulet discovery at Tel Azekah, Israel The post Toddler’s Family Hike Ends With a 3,800-Year-Old Scarab Amulet Discovery appeared first on The Hearty Soul. The hill had been dug by archaeologists for…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (540+ words) A 3-year-old picked up a strange stone on an Israeli trail. What experts found beneath the dust revealed one Bronze Age object nearly 4,000 years old. Ziv Nitzan was walking with her family along a gravel-covered trail in Israel when one…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (824+ words) Archaeologists excavating Türkmen Karahöyük in central Türkiye have uncovered two rare objects separated by nearly two millennia: a 3,500-year-old stone seal inscribed in Hieroglyphic Luwian and a Late Roman Christian amulet containing an exceptionally thin sheet of gold believed to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1058+ words) On a July afternoon in 1993, archaeologist and surveyor Gila Cook was completing measurements beside an ancient gateway at Tel Dan in northern Israel. Nothing about the dark basalt stone beneath her suggested that it had once carried the words of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (286+ words) ALERT: Upcoming dates for the elections of General Synod representatives Archaeologists recently unearthed charred wooden remains from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, according to a Monday report. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced that IAA and Tel Aviv University archaeologists discovered…...