Nebuchadnezzar ii is one of the most infamous kings of the Bible. He is particularly known for the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e., and for his relationship with the Prophet ...

The added detail of “21st century” is important here—because these add to a corpus of more than 30,000 known Hittite tablets ...

Discovered nearly 150 years ago, the Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most important archaeological testimonies to the legacy of ...

It’s a classic question in biblical archaeology: Can this biblical individual be verified through archaeological means? And the past two centuries of archaeological discovery have yielded up an ...

According to excavation directors Dr. Benyamin Storchan and Gil Freid, the Lower Aqueduct was an “impressive engineering ...

In summer 2025, Celtic Throne became the first major international show to tour Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. The troupe, which includes children and teenagers, didn’t come despite the war in Gaza. It ...

The story of the Israelites in Egypt and the Exodus is, of course, best known from the biblical account—chiefly, the Torah (Pentateuch), the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, ascribed by text and ...

The Hebrew calendar is extremely regulated and accurate. Divine and detailed biblical instructions are given for determining months and precisely pinpointing dates, especially for the holy days. The ...

The 10 plagues of Egypt constitute one of the strangest collections of miracles in the Bible. Water turned to blood, legions of frogs, dust turned to lice, boils—nowhere else in the Bible do we see ...

Here in Israel, the book of Esther is on people’s minds at this time of year as they celebrate Purim, the holiday marking the saving of the Persian Jews from a genocide led by the wicked Haman (Esther ...