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The Mending of the Chariot Wheels and the Craftsmen of Ancient Days

In the days of old, when kings and princes rode forth in chariots of might, the art of crafting and repairing these vehicles was held in great esteem. The chariot was not only a means of swift transport but a symbol of power and divine favor. To keep them in readiness for battle, procession, or journey, skilled hands labored diligently to fashion a...

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Concerning Syria the Strong, and Her Dealings with Israel

Syria in the Days of the Patriarchs And it came to pass in the days of old, that the land of Syria was known unto the fathers. For when Abraham sent his servant to seek a wife for Isaac, he journeyed unto Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor, and there found Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian (Genesis 25:20). And Jacob, son of Isaac, fled from ...

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What is Biblical Archaeology?

WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY? Archaeology is the science of antiquities, or the study of the relics of early races in order in understand as much as possible about the life they lived. Bible archaeology limits the study to Bible lands and to those discoveries that have definite bearing upon the Scriptures. Much of the work of Bible archaeology, we shall...

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Related Bibliography

1. For interesting introduction to study of archaeology, see Edward Chiera, They Wrote on Clay. 2. William F. Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1933), pp. 127-128. 3. Joseph Free, Archaeology and Bible History, p. 1. 4. Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine, pp. 16-18; Adams, Ancient Reco...

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The Value of Studying Biblical Archaeology

The value of the study of Bible archaeology. Numerous critics of the Bible who have boasted of using so-called scientific methods have challenged the accuracy and the historicity of many statements in the Scriptures. The early narratives of the Bible have been declared to be legendary or mythical. A late date has been suggested for certain book...

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The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone

The discovery of the stone. For many centuries travelers to Egypt saw on the ruins of ancient temples, palaces, or tombs, or on the walls, pillars, or ceilings of old buildings, many inscriptions which were in the old hieroglyphic or pictorial language of old Egypt, which no scholar knew how to read. When Napoleon invaded the land of Egypt in 1...

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Buried Cities, Mounds, and Tells

How cities have become buried, and why they are in the form of a mound (or tell). When the ancients would build a new city, they often chose a hill located near a spring. They would build a wall around the city to protect it against an enemy. The city thus built might be occupied for several centuries and then be destroyed by an enemy, or by ea...

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Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Deciphering of the stone. A young Frenchman by the name of Champollion, using the method of comparing the known (Greek) with the unknown (Egyptian), succeeded in the year 1818 in deciphering the Egyptian languages. The middle writing on the stone was a cursive type, and was the vernacular of the common people. The top language was the picture w...

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Excavations and Documentation

The science of uncovering a buried city. The early pioneers in archaeology had not developed the scientific methods that have been used by the twentieth- century excavators. Now it is customary for each occupational level of earth to be removed and everything found in it recorded before the next deepest level is uncovered. Everything found is alw...

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Discovery of the Behistun Rock

The discovery and copying of the inscription. Shortly before the middle of the nineteenth century, when archaeologists were beginning to uncover ancient Assyrian palaces and many inscriptions were made available to scholars in the old cuneiform language of Babylonia and Assyria, it was providential that an important discovery led to the deciphe...

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