archaeology
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Faith
Prayer notes left at Western Wall collected for burial today
Today the prayer notes left at the Western Wall in Jerusalem are being collected. They do this twice a year.…
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Archaeology and History
Maya exhibit at Union Station transports visitors to different time
Families looking for something both fun and educational to do this fall may want to check out the latest exhibit…
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Archaeology and History
Super rare looted Jewish coin returned to Israel
JERUSALEM—American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction…
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Archaeology and History
Discovery of Ivory sheds light on Jerusalem during Solomon’s Temple
An extraordinary discovery was recently unearthed in Jerusalem when Israeli archeologists uncovered an assemblage of ivory plaques dating to the…
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Archaeology and History
Museum of the Bible returns manuscript that was stolen from monastery during WWI
The Museum of the Bible has returned a stolen manuscript to the Greek Orthodox Church. Bulgarian troops in 1917 looted…
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Archaeology and History
Christian History: Bible backing archaeologist Kenyon
Seventy years ago this month, Frederick George Kenyon passed away. He was a trailblazer in biblical archaeology. “Both the authenticity…
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Travel
First known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah uncovered in Israel
The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah was discovered at an ancient synagogue in Israel, the University…
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Archaeology and History
Home of Temple priest from era of Jesus and disciples discovered
A ritual bath (mikveh) most likely used by a temple priest during the time of Jesus has been discovered in…
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Archaeology and History
War on science: Anthropologists pressured to stop labeling remains ‘male’ or ‘female’
Anthropologists are being pressured to stop identifying human remains as “male” or “female.” LGBT activists say scientists can not know…
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Archaeology and History
British archaeologists discover rare skeleton of man crucified by Romans
Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a man that appears to have been crucified by the Romans in the United…
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