Excavations at Tapeh Tyalineh have uncovered over 7,000 seal impressions and related administrative tools from c. 3000 BCE. The finds illuminate early bureaucratic systems behind economies later echoed in Mesopotamian and biblical worlds. #AncientNearEast #Archaeology

The Nimrud Letters offer a window into imperial policy, warfare, deportations, and administration under Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II. They show the Assyrian world behind biblical accounts of Israel and Judah. #Assyriology #AncientNearEast #BiblicalHistory

Archaeologists in northern Turkey report the discovery of the long-lost Temple of Kubaba, a major Iron Age cult center. #Archaeology

A 3,800 yo tablet from Ur records a complaint against a copper merchant named Ea-Nasir. Beyond its meme fame, the text offers rare insight into Bronze Age trade, ethics, and dispute resolution in Mesopotamia. #AncientNearEast #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform

Mesopotamian medical texts sometimes prescribed visits to temples as part of therapy. New evidence suggests this ritual act helped navigate inauspicious days or secure favorable omens. #AncientMedicine www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Long before modern politics, ancient Mesopotamian societies recognized gender-diverse people in formal, respected roles. Texts from 3rd-millennium BCE Mesopotamia name assinnu serving Ištar and ša rēši at royal courts. #AncientNearEast #BiblicalWorld

Underwater archaeologists in Alexandria have uncovered a 1st-century thalamagos, a luxury barge used by Ptolemaic elites and in cultic processions near the temple of Isis. Such vessels illuminate the royal and religious world of late Hellenistic Egypt. #Archaeology

Archaeologists at Karnak have uncovered a sacred lake at the Montu Temple in Luxor, highlighting ritual water use in ancient Egypt. Sacred lakes illuminate the cultic world behind biblical references to temple purity, priests, and holy space. #AncientEgypt

A massive stone fortress has re-emerged from the sands of North Sinai, reshaping views of how Egypt guarded its northeastern frontier—an area tied to the “Way of Horus” and Egypt–Levant borderlands. #BiblicalWorld #ExodusStudies #AncientEgypt #Levant #Archaeology

Sudan’s civil war has devastated museums, with thousands of artifacts looted and trafficked. The losses threaten material culture from ancient Nubia and Kush, key contexts for the biblical world’s southern neighbors. #BiblicalWorld #AncientNearEast #Nubia #Kush

The Egypt Exploration Society has secured £2.03m to protect and open its world-class archives, including the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vital for studying early Judaism and Christianity in Roman Egypt and the textual world behind the Bible. #BiblicalStudies #Papyrology

Medieval frescoes in rural Piedmont churches are being reopened via a simple phone app, unlocking spaces of prayer and art long kept closed. #BiblicalArt #MedievalChristianity #SacredSpace

Archaeologist Flint Dibble challenged Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan, stressing that claims of a lost advanced civilization lack archaeological evidence. The exchange highlights how method, data, and peer review shape credible history. #Archaeology #AncientHistory

Lab’ayu emerges in the Amarna Letters as a disruptive Late Bronze Age ruler, leveraging ʿApiru alliances and trade routes to challenge Egypt’s vassal order. His highland power politics anticipate patterns later echoed in biblical figures like Abimelech and Saul. #AmarnaLetters

Did Moses receive the Ten Commandments at Sinai, or do the texts tell a more complex story? Comparing Exodus and Deuteronomy reveals tensions in law, theology, and morality, and how ancient Israelites understood divine authority and ethical obligation. #BiblicalStudies

Why do archaeologists leave sites unexcavated? Because excavation destroys as it reveals. Preserving layers in the ground protects evidence for future study, including sites tied to the biblical world and ancient Israel. #Archaeology #BiblicalStudies

Pope Leo XIV calls archaeology essential for today. In a 2025 letter, he argues archaeology grounds religion in real bodies, places, and memories, offering hope and credibility in a wounded world. #BiblicalStudies #ChurchHistory #FaithAndHistory

Archaeologists uncover a massive sun temple at Abusir, built by King Nyuserre in the 25th century BCE. Covering 10,000+ sq. ft., it’s only the second sun temple ever found and reshapes our understanding of Egyptian solar worship. 🌞🏛️ #Abusir www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancien...

New geoarchaeological research reveals that Karnak Temple was built on a fluvial “island” surrounded by river channels, echoing the Egyptian creation myth of the primeval mound. Occupation began around 2520 BCE, with later dramatic landscape changes. #Karnak #Egyptology

Hittite style carvings and cuneiform have claimed to be found in Kateřinská Cave, Czech Republic. If ancient, the tablet implies astonishing long distance connections. If modern, it may be a rare archaeological hoax. How do you interpret these findings? #Archaeology #Cuneiform

From a royal tomb to ancient DNA and a deciphered script, 2025 brought major breakthroughs in Middle Eastern and North African archaeology, reshaping how we understand kingship, mobility, and writing in the biblical and ancient Near Eastern world. #BiblicalStudies anetoday.org/top-discover...

Pompeii archaeologists are restoring al-Dirah, a historic town in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla oasis. The site preserves medieval to modern lifeways in western Arabia, near ancient Dedan, illuminating long continuities of settlement and trade in a wider Arabian context. #Archaeology

Century-old watercolours by Egyptian artist Ahmed Yousef, made during 1920s Penn Museum excavations, preserve New Kingdom tomb scenes now lost. They illuminate funerary beliefs that shaped the biblical world. #BiblicalWorld #AncientEgypt #Archaeology

Swansea University’s Egypt Centre is revamping its “House of Death” gallery with immersive sound and smellscapes. Ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs shaped the biblical world Exodus knew, from coffins to afterlife imagery. #BiblicalWorld #AncientEgypt #MuseumStudies

The Khalidi Library in Jerusalem preserves centuries of Islamic scholarship and archives beside sites sacred to the Bible. Founded in 1900, its manuscripts illuminate the lived religious, legal, and intellectual world of the city. #BiblicalWorld #JerusalemStudies #Manuscripts

Christianity in Africa long predates colonialism. From early communities in Egypt, Nubia, and Aksum to churches in Kongo and West Africa, conversion unfolded through gradual inculturation, not sudden rupture. #BiblicalStudies #EarlyChristianity #AfricanChristianity

Rockefeller Archaeological Museum has reopened, showcasing finds that anchor biblical history in material culture, from Shoshenq I’s campaign against Judah in 1 Kings 14 to artifacts linked with the Temple Mount and Holy Sepulcher. Its future remains uncertain. #BiblicalStudies

New quantitative models show New Kingdom Egypt’s Nubian gold mining was profitable, especially simple placer methods along wadis and the Nile. #BiblicalStudies #AncientEgypt #Nubia

A rare 1,300-year-old lead medallion bearing a seven-branched menorah has been uncovered in Jerusalem, offering a personal glimpse into Jewish identity under early Islamic rule and recalling the menorah of Exod 25 as a persistent symbol of memory, worship, and hope.

Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land is rooted in antiquity, echoing Ps 131:7. Archaeology shows many holy sites preserve continuous worship, embedding early Christian memory of Jesus’ life in enduring sacred architecture. #BiblicalStudies #EarlyChristianity

New research finally deciphers Cryptic B scripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Translations of 4Q362 and 4Q363 reveal biblical idioms and eschatological themes, offering fresh insight into Qumran scribal culture and the use of cryptic writing in Second Temple Judaism. #DeadSeaScrolls

Excavation at Ḥorvat Tevet uncovered a rare Iron IIC cremation burial with luxury goods and wide-ranging imports, contrasting with the modest settlement remains. The find sheds new light on elite funerary practice. #BiblicalArchaeology #IronAge #NeoAssyrian

New research nearly doubles evidence for tattooing in the ancient Nile Valley. Study of Nubian remains from 350 BCE to 1400 CE shows a major shift in the Christian period, including tattoos on infants and early Christian identity marking in northeast Africa. #EarlyChristianity

A 9,000-year-old Mesolithic shaman grave from Bad Dürrenberg reveals remarkable details: a woman buried with a 6-month-old child, wearing a deer-antler headdress with animal tooth pendants, and now microscopic feathers. #Mesolithic #Shamanism #AncientRituals #Archaeology

New skeletal evidence from Roman Britain shows health declined in cities, not rural areas. This sharp urban-rural divide echoes biblical critiques of imperial “civilization,” where empire brings inequality and suffering. #BiblicalStudies #RomanEmpire #SocialHistory phys.org/news/2025-12...

For ancient Romans, public bathing was central to daily life and social order. This context sharpens biblical scenes like John 5 at the pools of Bethesda, where healing unfolds within familiar Graeco-Roman bath culture. #BiblicalStudies #NewTestament #RomanWorld daily.jstor.org/bread-circus...

Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoe: murdered, buried in Ephesus, and still shrouded in mystery. Who ordered her death and how did Rome’s power struggles reshape the ancient world? Discover the story at the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s new exhibition.

Pompeii reveals advanced Roman concrete techniques, including hot mixing of lime and pozzolan, the same methods used across the empire in Palestine, Judea, and Galilee, shaping the urban spaces and public buildings familiar to biblical authors and audiences. #Archaeology

Finds from Roman Berenike, a major Red Sea port of the 1st–2nd c. CE, highlight Indian Ocean trade in spices, luxury goods, and even live animals, illuminating the globally connected economic world presupposed by New Testament texts such as Revelation 18. #Archaeology

The Ketton mosaic draws on Greek epic traditions (Aeschylus’ Trojan War cycle) that formed the shared literary culture of the Roman Mediterranean. This same world shaped biblical authors and audiences, who engaged with, adapted, or subverted heroic ideals. #Archaeology

Recent excavations at Senon (Divodurum/Metz) illuminate urban development, coin circulation, and decline in Roman Gaul, part of the same imperial, economic, and late-antique world in which biblical texts emerged. #Archaeology #RomanGaul #BiblicalWorld #LateAntiquity

Who was Lab’ayu of Shechem? A new study reconstructs his alliances, use of the ʿApiru, and bid to control Canaanite trade routes, showing how his Late Bronze Age ambitions shaped the Jezreel Valley and echoed in later biblical traditions. #BiblicalStudies

Did Moses receive the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, or are we reading layered traditions? A new discussion explores tensions between Exodus and Deuteronomy, the meaning of “taking God’s name in vain,” and how law and morality merged in the ancient world. #BiblicalStudies

Discovered in 2009 at Magdala by the Sea of Galilee, a synagogue stone bears a carved seven branch menorah. Dated to about 50 to 80, it may be the earliest Second Temple era menorah depiction, reshaping views of early synagogues. #Magdala #Menorah

New archaeological research is revisiting the dramatic story of Masada, long seen as the last stand of Jewish resistance against Rome. Fresh evidence is challenging traditional narratives and offering new perspectives on what may have happened at the fortress. #Masada

As #Hanukkah celebrates Jewish resilience, the ancient city of Apamea reveals a forgotten chapter of Jewish life: one of integration, visibility, and faith.

In a Hanukkah discovery, a rare Hasmonean lamp and Second Temple stylus have been found near Jerusalem. #Archaeology

An underground church and Mithraeum are set for restoration at Türkiye's Zerzevan Castle. The new phase will build on ongoing conservation at the southern tower and the large church. #Archaeology #Turkey

Five square pillars made of quarry stone, partly plastered with white gypsum, had suggested that it might be a church. Geophysical investigations have revealed more walls underground, so that this "church" was believed to be part of a larger monastery. #Archaeology

New research challenges the long-held view that Assyria invented cavalry warfare. Evidence now points to Aramean and Luwian states of the Syrian-Anatolian world developing true cavalry by the 10th century BCE, reshaping how we understand ancient military innovation. #AncientHistory