Archaeologists working at a site in Israel said the growing body of evidence 'confirmed' it was likely the hometown of Jesus' ...

Researcher Bryan Windle of Bible Archaeology Report compiled his list of top ten New Testament archaeological discoveries – a ranked selection drawn from more than 150 years of digging in the ancient ...

Quick! Tell me about the three top stories in the most recent copy of the Journal of Biblical Archaeology? And thereby hangs a tale. The reason you and I don’t know anything about biblical archaeology ...

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public. Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of ...

Ancient name data reveals Israel was more diverse than Judah, offering new insight into biblical-era societies through a modern statistical lens. Archaeological evidence of names holding significance ...

When the first issue of Biblical Archaeology Review was published 40 years ago, it was little more than a one-man show. Founder and editor Hershel Shanks wrote nearly all the content of that first ...

TEL AVIV – A leading archaeology journal has effectively barred submissions by Israelis on Judea and Samaria unless they “have cooperated with the relevant Palestinian authorities,” in what analysts ...

JTA — Hershel Shanks, the one-time publisher and editor of Moment magazine and a powerhouse in the popularization of biblical archaeology, has died at 90. He died Feb. 5 at his home in Washington, D.C ...

(RNS) — As founder of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Shanks helped bridge academic scholarship with the lay public’s appetite for answers to questions about key archaeological and historical events ...