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A team of archaeologists led by Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University claims they have located the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium. Mazel Tov!

Happy Passover darlings. Today in the NY Times there is an article about archaeology in the North Sinai and how it relates, or more accurately, does not relate, to the story of the Exodus.

The Israel Antiquities Authority began construction on a structure dedicated to teaching about archaeology in Israel. It’s called the National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, and it will be located near the Israel Museum and the Knesset.

Recently a construction worker in Ireland discovered a Medieval book of psalms while he was removing peat with a backhoe. The book is about 20 pages, in Latin script, and Bernard Meehan (Trinity College) dates the manuscript to 800-1000 CE. The book was found open to Psalm 83.

Like, what a shocker! Politics playing a role in Jerusalem archaeology?!? It’s like so hard to believe. But according to Haaretz, the latest controversy involves new Muslim graves along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount. This area, it seems, is one of the few places where archaeologists can see remnants of First Temple [...]

Like, remember back in 1968 when those Liverpoolians X-rayed the mummy of Tutankhamon? Well, they thought something was missing. They couldn’t find his, well, ahem… genitalia. Some even thought that looters stole it and sold it to collectors. Heehaw. Well, some good news, I guess… Zahi Hawass has anounced that using a CT scan, they [...]

A team of archaeologists last month from North Carolina, directed by Shimon Gibson and James Tabor, excavated at the Suba Cave near Bethlehem where they earlier found artistic representations of John the Baptist. It turns out the cave was actually used as a water resevoir quite a bit earlier, from as early as the 7th [...]

Archaeologists excavating near Kfar Kana, just north of Nazareth, have found a series of tunnels and pits used during the Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 CE). Yardenna Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority says that the tunnels show that the Jewish Revolt was far from spontaneous as depicted in Josephus; rather, the Jews in the [...]

There has been a bit of news recently about an ancient Christian text from the third or fourth century CE known as the Gospel of Judas. The fragmentary text is in Coptic, much like the Nag Hammadi texts found in Egypt in 1945. Moreover, the text appears to be a copy of an earlier document [...]

Darlings, it seems that archaeologists from the University of Memphis (sic!) discovered a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first tomb found since Carter and Tut way back in 1922. I hear there are storage jars with their seals intact. Very exciting stuff, and congratulations to the team.