The Old Testament
NOAHS ARK
The Real Noah's Ark!
Top Points to Consider
It is in the shape of a boat, with a pointed bow and rounded stern.
Exact length as noted in biblical description, 515 feet or 300 Egyptian cubits. (Egyptian not Hebrew cubit would have been...
Phillistines temple found at Gath ,Home oif Goliath
The stratum or layer in which the discovery was made. Stratum A3 is dated to the 9th century B.C.
Prof. Maeir is now confident that he has found a Philistine temple. Let him tell the story:
The first [photo] is a working view of the structure which I believe we can now firmly claim to be a...
The House of Yahweh Ostracon(pottery)
Clay ostracon
size -6.2 cm
Hebrew
Arad Israel
Date -Early sixth century B.C.E
Present location:Israel Museum(Bronfman Arcaeology Wing)
Identification no IAA 1967-669 (Arad letter 18)
During escavations in Arad from 1962-1967,archaeologists found more than 200
inscribed objects,most of them...
The House of David Inscription
The House of David Inscription (also known as the “Tel Dan Inscription”) was discovered in 1994 during excavations at the ancient city of Dan.
The fragment specifically mentions victories over a “king of Israel” (probably Joram) and a king of the “House of David” (probably Ahaziah). ...
The Babylonian Chronicles
Photo of one of the Babylonian Chronicles on display in the British Museum
The Babylonian Chronicles make it possible to assign the fall of Jerusalem to the Second of Adar (March 16) in 597 B.C. with complete accuracy, confirming the Biblical accounts of Babylonian attacks on Jerusalem...
The Rosetta Stone
Photo of the Rosetta Stone in a British Museum
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone is important in the study of Biblical Archaeology, it ushered in the era of modern Egyptology and opened our eyes to 3000 years of peculiar pictures inscribed on Egyptian temples, statues, and monuments,...
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Hezekiah's tunnel or the Siloam tunnel is a tunnel that was dug underneath the Ophel in Jerusalem about 701 BC during the reign of Hezekiah.
Hezekiah's Tunnel, or the Siloam Tunnel is a tunnel that was dug underneath the City of David in Jerusalem before 701 BC during the reign of Hezekiah....
The Moabite Stone
The Moabite Stone discovered east of the Dead Sea in 1968 now in the Louvre Museum In Paris
The Moabite Stone was discovered in 1868 about 20 miles east of the Dead Sea. What is most amazing is that it mentions "Israel," "Yahweh" and the "House of David." It is now in the Louvre...
The Walls of Jericho
Arabic أريحا
Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ
Name meaning "Fragrant"
Founded in 9000 BCE
Located six miles north of the Dead Sea and west of the Jordan River, all that is left today of the ancient city of Jericho is a 70-foot high mound that occupies...
The Cyrus Cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder, discovered in 1879 in Babylon by Hormuzd Rassam. It is 9 in (22.5 cm) in length and 4 in (10 cm) in diameter, with 45 lines of preserved text. (Photo by ABR photographer Michael Luddeni)
Declares freedom for the Jews from captivity in Babylon.
The Cyrus...
Silver Amulet Scroll
Silver Amulet Scroll
Late seventh or early sixth century B.C. - some 400 years before the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
An archaeological discovery in 1979 revealed a verse from Numbers 6:24-26 , appeared to be the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
The amulet...
Babylonian Tablet
The tablet mentioning Nebo-Sarsekim was found in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city 20 mi (32 km) southwest of modern Baghdad and 35 mi (57 km) north of Babylon. In the late 19th century, tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets were recovered from the site and brought to the British Museum...
The Tel Hazor Tablets
In the 1960s a youngster stumbled across a small piece of a broken tablet at Hazor
The discovery of the tablet suggests that the king of Hazor once had a school of scribes who helped with his foreign correspondence.
-A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan
Hazor...
Gezer And The Gezer Calender Tablet
During a recent excavation in Israel, archaeologists unearthed important new evidence that sheds light on biblical events. The site of their discoveries is Tel Gezer, a 30-acre mound at the base of the foothills 15 miles west of Jerusalem. Because of its strategic location, Gezer became...