Egyptian Museum – An Egyptologist’s Dream
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | 2 Comments »The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is unbelievable. You could easily spend an entire day in the museum and not see it all. I recommend studying Egyptology, gaining your Certified Egyptologist credentials, and studying the museum's collection before visiting the museum ...
Nabataean Petra
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | 4 Comments »Petra is one of the most amazing places that can be visited in the Near East. Petra is a Greek word that means cleft in the rock. Petra, located in southern Jordan, has been included in the New Seven Wonders ...
Biblical Archaeologists Hunt for the Ark
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »If the Ark of the Covenant is ever found, it will be the most extraordinary biblical archaeology headline in history. The hunt for the ark will probably never end unless it is found. But some question whether it still exists ...
Assyriology Primer
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »Assyriology has revealed that long ago, the political city state of Assyria was located on the banks of the Upper Tigris River in Mesopotamia. The city took its name from the capital at the time, and the term 'Assyria' also ...
Ayyubid Dynasty
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »The Ayyubid Dynasty was an empire centered in Cairo and Damascus that ruled most of the Middle East region in the time between the 12th and 13thcenturies BCE. Its people were the Ayyubids who were Sunni Muslims of ...
Biblical Gezer
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »In ages past, Gezer stood roughly 30 kilometers west of Jerusalem. The town itself was positioned on the crossroads where the road linking the international coast road and Jerusalem’s highway meet up. Ancient Gezer was situated towards the northern area ...
Gilgal Across the Jordan River
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »If we open the Book of Joshua we read that Gilgal was the place where the Israelite's lingered, just after traversing the River Jordan. Once they had made camp there, they were instructed by Joshua to gather stones from Jordan ...
Ancient Tarsus
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »The ancient city of Tarsus is in what is now the Mersin Province of Turkey, near the cities of Mersin and Adana. Tarsus has been an important trade center for over 9,000 years. Under the Roman Empire, Tarsus was the capital city ...
The Biblical Archaeology of the Megiddo Excavations
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »Tel Megiddo, in modern Israel, is a hill near the Kibbutz of Megiddo. It is known by Biblical Archaeologists equally for its historical, geographical , and theological value. While in ancient times, it is an important city state guarding the ...
The Gold of Napata
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Recent Articles | No Comments »The city of Napata could be found in ancient times about 400 km north of Khartoum. This city-state stood on the edge of the Blue Nile River and is known to have originally been erected by the Nubian people, probably ...