BiblePlaces Blog

During excavations of the agora at Smyrna, archaeologists discovered three rooms with wall paintings and mosaics.

“For nearly 180 years, archaeologists studying Nimrud in northern Iraq have focused on palaces, temples, and royal ...

“Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Adramytteion in western Türkiye have uncovered an unusually personal trace of Roman domestic life: a cat and a dog depicted in a mosaic from the villa’s 2nd–3rd-century AD phase,

“A team led by Israeli researcher Yoav Vaknin has developed a method to distinguish genuine clay artifacts from modern fakes by reading faint magnetic signals locked into the objects when they were fired ...

A burial cave from the Second Temple period was discovered underneath a building in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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If you plan to visit biblical sites, you will benefit from a good guidebook. For years I have recommended excellent resources such as Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, The Holy Land, Clyde E. Fant and Mitchell G. Reddish, A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey, and Mark Wilson, Biblical Turkey. These books share the same basic approach: organized by s...