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Biblical Archaeology News 2009
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Nov 15, 2009
A Minoan Wall Painting Fron The Time Of Abraham was
Excavated Among the Ruins of A Canaanite Palace Located At
Tell Kabri In The Galilee Region Of Ancient Israel.
The Design Of The Aegean-Style Fresco Reveals That The
Ancient Canaanites Were Familiar With Euro-Mediterranean
Culture.
Nov 12, 2009
Spanish Archaeologists Discover The Ruins Of A 4500 Year Old
"Circular" City Located On The Banks Of The Euphrates River
At Tall Qabr, Near The Center of The Northernmost Section Of
The Fertile Crescent. The Trade City Was Part Of The Semitic
Kingdom Of Mari Where Over 25,000 Akkadian Tablets Have Been
Discovered Shedding Light On Hundreds of Ancient Cities. The
Inhabitants of Mari Worshipped Sumerian Deities Like Dagon,
Ishtar, and Shamash.
Oct 29, 2009
Austrian Archaeologists Discover A Babylonian Seal Which
Confirms A Clear Link Between Babylonia And The Kingdom of
Hyskos In Egypt Around 1600 BC, The Time Of Moses And The
Exodus. This Discovery Brings Archaeologists Closer To
Answering The Big Question Of How A Weak Semitic Group Of
"Wanderers" Known As The Hyskos Could Have Conquered Egypt
Unless The Biblical Exodus Had Actually Happened.
Oct 2, 2009
Italian and British Archaeologists Excavate An Ancient "Mini" Colosseum
Near Rome At A Harbor Originally Built By The Emperor Nero
On The Tiber River. It Seated 2000 People, Compared to The
Colosseum In Rome (Flavian Amphitheatre) Which Could Seat
50,000 People. The Amphitheatre Was Thought To Have Been
Used For Entertainment By The More Elite "High Official"
Bloodthirsty Crowds. Many Christians Were Martyred In
Similar Colosseum's.
Sep 29, 2009
Nero's
Rotating Banqueting Hall Was Discovered Among The Ancient Ruins Of
His Golden Palace In Rome. The Palace Was Completed In 68
AD, The Same Year That The Deranged Nero Committed Suicide.
Nero Slaughtered Hundreds Of Christians, Whom He Had Falsely
Blamed For The Great Fire Of Rome In 64 AD, According to
Tacitus.
Sep 25, 2009
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Coins Bearing The
Name And Portrait Of The Biblical Joseph. The Discovery Also
Sheds New Light On How Coins Were Used In Ancient Egypt.
Sep 23, 2009
A 2000 Year Old Ritual Immersion Bath Was Uncovered By
Archaeologists in Jerusalem. According to Experts The Bath (Mikveh)
was Used By Jewish Pilgrims Coming To Jerusalem To Purify
Themselves Before Entering The Temple In Jerusalem.
Sep 22, 2009
Excavations at Tel Dor The famous Port City In Ancient
Israel Reveal An Amazing Discovery, A Gemstone From The
Hellenistic Period With The Portrait of Alexander The Great
Carved In Remarkable Detail.
Sep 15, 2009
Israeli Archaeologists Discover Coins In A Cave Dating Back
To The Time Of The Jewish Revolt Against Rome Nearly 2000
Years Ago. The Cave Was A Hiding Place For Jewish Rebels
Resisting Roman Rule In Israel.
Aug 11, 2009
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Assyrian Tablets In The Holy
of Holies Of A 2,700-year Old Temple In Turkey Located At
The Ancient City of Calno Which Was Destroyed by
Tiglath-pileser III, The Same Assyrian King Who Ordered the
Destruction Of Israel Which Happened In 722 BC. Calno Was A
Hittite City Mentioned In The Bible (Isaiah 10:9) By The
Prophet Isaiah Who Prophesied Against The Assyrians And
Their Boasting of Having Destroyed Calno. Scholar's Conclude
"The destruction of the Luwian monuments and conversion of
the sacred precinct into an Assyrian religious complex may
represent the physical manifestation of this historic event
(Mentioned In Isaiah 10:9).”
Aug 6, 2009
Archaeologists Discover the Birthplace of Emperor Titus
Vespasian in Rome. Titus Was the Able General That Nero
Chose to Put Down the Jewish Revolt in Jerusalem That Ended
with The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD.
The Triumphant Scene was Carved on the Arch of Titus and is
There to This Day. Titus Vespasian Also Began the Building
of The Great Colosseum Also Known as The Flavian Ampiheatre.
Jul 24, 2009
A 65 Foot Roman Ship Dating From The First Century Was
Discovered Along With 4 Other Large Ancient Roman Trading
Vessels Who All Sank During Violent Storms While Heading For
Safety At The Remote Island of Pandataria in the Bay of
Naples Near Rome. The Ships Were Found Using Sonar
Technology and Are "Well Preserved Lying In Their Original
Positions."
Jul 20, 2009
Archaeologists Have Unearthed The Site In The Elah Valley
Where The Famous Battle Took Place Between David And
Goliath. The Findings Conclude That They Have Found The 10th
Century BC Biblical City of Sha'arayim, Hebrew for "Two
Gates.” The Findings Also Provide Evidence That David Ruled
From Jerusalem.
Jul 6, 2009
Massive Limestone Quarry Discovered in Jerusalem Positively
Identified with Herod's Famous First Century BC Herculean
Building Projects Including the Second Temple. Many of the
Thousands of Stones
Gathered from this Quarry Were Higher than a 6-Foot Tall Man
& Weighing Over 5-Tons Each.
Jun 23, 2009
"Wolves and Hyenas" Guard the Entrance to the largest
Artificial Cave Ever Discovered in Israel. The Giant
Underground Quarry Was Found In the Jordan Valley Near the
Site of Ancient Jericho and is Believed to Have Been A
Secret Gathering Place for First Century Christians
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Jun 22, 2009
Workers Accidently Uncover A 4,000 Year Old Tomb Near
Jerusalem Dating Over a Century Earlier than Abraham, The
First Hebrew. The Find Reveals Burial Customs and Life In
Ancient Canaan Before the Migration of the Hebrews.
Apr 27, 2009
Archaeologists Discover
An Impressive Egyptian Temple in Northern Sinai Which Once
Guarded the Entrance Into Egypt From Canaan and the East.
Egyptian Authorities Date the Find to the Period of Thutmose
II who Reigned Close to a Century Before the Time of the
Biblical Moses and While the Hebrews Were Slaves In Egypt.
The Once Colorful 30 x 40 Meter Temple Was Made of Mud and
Brick.
Apr 10, 2009
A Decorative Plaque Was Discovered in Israel Which Some
Scholars Believe to Be That of a Female Canaanite King and
Possibly the Mysterious Mistress of the Lionesses. Around
1350 BC Several Canaanite Kings Sent Clay Tablets to the
Egyptian Pharaoh Requesting Military Help From Nomadic
Marauders Known as the Habiru. Of the 382 Tablets That Have
Been Found, Two Were Signed With the Feminine Epithet
"Mistress of the Lionesses." According to Israeli
Archaeologist Zvi Lederman, "The Mistress Complained to the
Egyptian Court That the Habiru Were Around and that her City
was in Danger."
Apr 7, 2009
Archaeologists Discover What They Believe to Be the Site of
Gilgal, A City in Ancient Israel Mentioned often in The
Bible. There are Also Indications That it Was "built by the
Israelites when they first entered the Land of Canaan."
Mar 27, 2009
Archaeologist Claims that Her Excavations on the Island of
Cyprus are the Ruins of an Ancient Monotheistic Canaanite
Temple With a Peculiar Shape, Dating Back to the Time of the
Biblical Abraham
Mar 6, 2009
Archaeologists Detect A New Substance In This Ancient
Pottery Discovery In Iran Dating To The Iron Age (1000 BC),
The Clay Pots Contained 95% Lead
Mar 2, 2009
A Cylinder Seal From Early Mesopotamia Was Found Far
Away In The Arabian Desert. The Find Dates Back To What
Scholars Call "The Jemdet Nasr Period" and What Biblical
Archaeologists Call "The Period of the Flood"
Feb 23, 2009
Another Jerusalem Temple Proof Unearthed Though The
Palestinian Authority 'Steadfastly" Denies That Any
Jerusalem Temples Ever Existed
Feb 23, 2009
In Israel All Residential Construction Requires Approval by
Israeli Archaeologists So No Stone Goes Unturned, But
Underneath This Home Inspectors Found Seal Impressions From
The Reign Of King Hezekiah
Feb 20, 2009
50 Tons of Marble Was Discovered On This 2000 Year Old
Shipwreck Destined For Rome's First Emperor Augustus's
Sacred Project, The Temple of Apollo. Augustus Was The
Emperor of Rome Mentioned In The Bible Who Ordered the
Census That Brought Joseph And Mary To Their Ancestral
Birthplaces, They Were Both From The City Of Bethlehem.
Feb 11, 2009
"Best Preserved Mummy" Discovered 15 Miles South of Cairo,
Egypt, The Storeroom of Mummies Date Back to the 26th
Dynasty (640 BC), The Last Native Dynasty of Egypt Before
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and Cambyses II of Persia Sent
The Kingdom of Egypt Into A Permanent Decline
Dec 25, 2008
Archaeologists Uncover in Egypt The Bust of Amenhotep III
Who Lived Shortly After The Hebrew Exodus, He Was The Father
Of Akhenaten Who Was A Chief Proponent Of Monotheism In
Ancient Egypt.
Newly Released Photo and Map
Nov 19, 2008
Further Excavations At The Herodium Mound Indicate King
Herod's Love For Theatre, Among The New Finds are A "Balcony
And Viewing Box." Herod The Great Was Mentioned In The Bible
As A Psycotic Ruler Who Heard of The Birth of A Jewish
Messiah and Ordered The Death Of All Infants In Bethlehem,
He was known in History as One of The Greatest Architects In
The Roman Empire Period."
Nov 11, 2008
2000 Year Old Gold Pearl Earring Sheds Light and Life To
Women in Ancient Jerusalem
Nov 3, 2008
3000 Year Old Piece of Pottery Discovered Dating Back to The
Kingdom Of David and With Oldest Hebrew Text To Confirm. The
Pot Shard Was Found Above The Hillside Where David Was Said
To Have Fought Goliath
Sep 3, 2008
Diggers in Israel Find Part of The Wall Of Ancient Jerusalem
Aug 3, 2008
A Seal Was Discovered Dating From Old Testament Times of Jeremiah The
Prophet. Ancient Seals Were Used to Make Impressions In
Clay, They Usually Contained Symbols or Figures Which Were
Engraved On The Seal.
Dec 10, 2007
Israeli Archaeologists Uncover The Mansion Of Queen Helena
In An Unexpected Place For A Wealthy Woman Living In
Jerusalem 2000 Years Ago, She Was Also A Contemporary Of
Jesus
Sep 10, 2007
Israeli Archaeologists Locate A Tunnel Of Terror For Fleeing
From The Bloodthirsty Roman Legions In 70 AD
May 10, 2007
Israeli Archaeologists Discover the Tomb of Herod the Great
Whom Caesar and The Roman Senate Called "King of the Jews",
He Was In Power When Jesus Was Born
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Archaeological Discoveries In Biblical
History (More to
Come)
The Tel
Dan Stele
Aug 6, 1993
Israeli Archaeologist Avraham Biran Uncovers A 9th Century
BC Stone Containing An Inscription Bearing The Words "The
House Of David", A Testimony To The Biblical Kind David And
The Dynasty That He Established In Israel
The
Pontius Pilate Stone
Jun 19, 1961
Archaeologists Uncover A Stone Bearing A Dedicatory
Inscription To Tiberius Caesar From The Roman Prefect Of
Judea, "Pontius Pilate", The Stone Was Discovered Among The
Ruins Of Caesarea Maritima on The Coast of Israel, One Of
The Most Famous Harbors Of The Ancient World
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Dec 11, 1947
Bedouin Shepherds Accidentally Discover Scrolls In Caves At
Qumran On The Northwestern Shores Of The Dead Sea. The
Leather, Papyrus, And Copper Scrolls Prove To Be Hebrew
Manuscripts Pushing The Date Of The Complete Hebrew Bible
Back Hundreds Of Years BC.
Sennacherib's Prism
Dec 24, 1920
A Clay Prism Was Discovered By Archaeologists And
Brought Back To The University Of Chicago. The Hexagonal
Prism Records Assyrian King Sennacherib's Military
Campaigns Including His War Campaign Against King Hezekiah
Whom He Claimed To Have Imprisoned Within His Own Royal City
(Jerusalem) Like A "Caged Bird". The Prism Also Records
Sennacherib's Miraculous Defeat
Nimrud Discovered
Oct 13, 1847
Nimrud, The Capital City Of The Believed Mythical Nation In
The Bible Assyria Has Been Discovered By British
Archaeologist Austin Henry Layard, Unearthing Not Only
Monuments and Palaces, But The Entire City
Colossal Winged Bull From
Palace of Sargon Discovered
June, 1842
Massive 16 Ton Human Headed Winged Bull Discovered by French
Archaeologist Paul Emile Botta from the Palace of Sargon at
Khorsabad. It Was Too Heavy to Move, Between the Legs were
Listed Sargon's titles, ancestry and achievements
Timelines and Dates -
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Psalms 93:1
- The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the
LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself:
the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms 56:10
- In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
word.
Psalms 90:17
- And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of
our hands establish thou it.
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"Little by little, one city after another, one civilization after
another, one culture after another, whose memories were enshrined
only in the Bible, were restored to their proper places in ancient
history by the studies of archaeologists... Contemporary records of
biblical events emphasized by contrast and comparison... Nowhere has
archaeological discovery refuted the Bible as history."
-John Elder "Prophets, idols and Diggers" (New York: Bobbs Merrill,
1960) p. 16
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"A substantial proof for the accuracy of the Old Testament text has
come from archaeology. Numerous discoveries have confirmed the
historical accuracy of the biblical documents, even down to the
obsolete names of foreign kings... Rather than a manifestation of
complete ignorance of the facts of its day, the biblical record thus
reflects a great knowledge by the writer of his day, as well as
precision in textual transmission."
-Norman L. Geisler, William Nix "A General Introduction to the
Bible" 5th Edition (Chicago: Moody Press 1983) p. 253
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