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Old Testament City Uncovered Outside Jerusalem After 14 Years of Excavation
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Yet another Old Testament city may have been uncovered in Israel. A team of archaeologists headed by Dr. Scott Stripling may have finally revealed the biblical city of Ai, a Canaanite city ambushed by the Israelites in the Book of Joshua. The proposed site for Ai is near Jerusalem at Khirbet el-Maqatir and has been…
Proof of the Exodus? Archaeologists Think They Know How Moses Parted the Red Sea
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
The story of the Exodus is one of the most important accounts in the Bible. It forms the foundation for the rest of the Old Testament and heavily influences the New Testament. Echoes of its power can still be felt today, and it serves as the backbone of the Jewish faith. There has, however, been…
Rare Discovery: Archaeologists Unearth 2,000-year-old Ring Belonging to Pontius Pilate
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
The original owner of an ancient bronze ring has finally been identified after decades of continually thwarted translation efforts. According to the recently deciphered inscription, the ancient owner was none other than Pontius Pilate, the infamous Roman governor who ordered Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. The ring was initially discovered nearly 50 years ago in a dig…
Scientists Find Evidence of Meteorite Responsible for Destroying Sodom and Gomorrah
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Sodom and Gomorrah are biblical shorthand for absolutely everything going as morally wrong as possible and being utterly annihilated as a result. Biblical skeptics have dismissed the story as nothing but a cautionary tale made up millennia ago, but science has found evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed more or less exactly…
1,500 Year Old Painting of Christ Discovered in Israel
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Depictions of Jesus have been at the center of Christian art for centuries. That said, many of the most famous paintings and statues are relatively recent creations. These dominate popular beliefs about Jesus’ appearance both because they are the most common and because little early Christian art has survived until the modern day. As such,…
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