Posts from June 2018

Newly unearthed, unusually large fortifications from the 11th century BCE could be the genesis of the biblical tall tale, says Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project director A giant of a man may have sprouted from an equally giant-sized city. Super-sized remains of “enormous” architecture and fortifications from a new, unexpected “biblical-era” layer of the Philistine city of Gath were unearthed this summer at the ongoing Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project. Whereas most of the site’s previously excavated areas date to the 10th…

Coins found above and below a 2,000-year old road to the Temple Mount prove it was constructed between 31 and 40 CE, researchers say, and thus likely commissioned by the infamous Roman governor of Judea, explain Israeli archaeologists. Archaeologists now believe that Jerusalem’s “Pilgrim’s Road” was built by none other than Pontius Pilate, the infamous Roman governor of Judea. The ancient road in the City of David, which was preserved under the ashes of the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70 CE,…