Archaeology

Archaeological Dig List for Israel

Those who say you can`t travel backward through time never worked at an archaeological dig. You can do it and it doesn`t require a fancy degree to join in. Volunteers do most of the dirty work and are often the lucky ones who find the artifacts. Volunteers come from all walks of life: some are students, some are retirees, some are on a religious pi...

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Apologetics Press

a publishing organization with several products concerning biblical archaeology [Biblical Archaeology] [Publications]...

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American Schools of Oriental Research

"ASOR's mission is to initiate, encourage, and support research into, and public understanding of, the peoples and cultures of the Near East from the earliest times". [Biblical Archaeology] [Research Organizations]...

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Iron II Palestine: Emerging Nations

From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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The Iron 1 Western Defense System at Tell El-`Umeiri, Jordan

From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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Plants and People in Ancient Anatolia

Mark Nesbitt Archaeobotany in the Near East has scored numerous advances, and excavations in Turkey played an especially significant role in spurring recognition that agriculture and diet are integral to an understanding of the past. Though still a youngster in the field, archaeobotany offers insight into every period of the human past. From Near ...

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Curse of the Balsam Cookers

The mystery of a curse inscribed on the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi on the shores of the Dead Sea may have been resolved.--ABRAHAM RABINOVICH Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Pelusium: Gateway to Egypt

A massive waterway across Egypt's northern Sinai Desert, known as the Peace Canal, aims to bring fresh water from the Nile to the city of El Arish, 40 miles west of the Israeli border, making the region fertile. In 1991 archaeologists launched the North Sinai Salvage Project to survey the canal's path for sites, excavate sites that would be destroy...

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From Cyprus to Munich

A police sting leads to the recovery of Cypriot church treasures.--MARK ROSE Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Europe]...

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Jews and Christians in a Roman World

Roman rule led to sweeping social transformations throughout the eastern Mediterranean.--RICHARD A. HORSLEY AND SUSAN E. ALCOCK Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Greece and Rome]...

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