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.
In the 10th century BCE strata where we excavated last summer at Tel Zayit, we discovered what some scholars are calling the earliest Hebrew alphabet ever discovered. You can read about it in the Nov 9th New York Times. Ron Tappy, the project’s director, will be presenting this great news in more detail in Philadelphia [...]
An Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar, digging at the City of David in East Jerusalem, has like uncovered a pretty large structure in what seems to be a 10th century context. She and others have even said it might be the palace of David. Time will tell, maybe, but for now you can read more about [...]
