New Efforts at Restoring 9th Century Bulgarian Basilica
The archaeological restoration of the 9th century Great Basilica in Pliska, capital of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/680-1018 AD) between 680 and 893 AD, has been reintensified by the National Museum...
View ArticleByzantine Exhibition at Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
On 24 June 2016, as part of the Year of Greece in Russia and Russia in Greece 2016, the exhibition Byzantium through the Centuries will open in the State Hermitage as one of the main events of this...
View ArticleUnderground Monastery Discovered in Cappadocia
A monastery hewn from the rock has been found during excavations and cleaning works in an underground city that was discovered in 2014 in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir during a Turkish...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Philistine Cemetery Unearthed at Ashkelon
The first and only Philistine cemetery ever discovered has been found outside the walls of ancient Ashkelon. As one of the major Philistine city-states during the Iron Age, Ashkelon was a significant...
View ArticleAltar of Holy Martyr King Olaf Discovered in Norway
[Source] The original shrine to a Viking-king-turned-saint has been discovered in Norway, archaeologists say. The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) announced Nov. 11 that its...
View ArticleExcavations At Oldest Monastic Site in Britain
[Source] Skeletons excavated at a site near Glastonbury are the oldest examples of monks ever found in the UK, carbon dating has proved. The remains, unearthed at the medieval Beckery chapel in...
View ArticleTop 10 Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2016
[Source] **The stories below are listed in no particular order** Cemetery excavation supervisor Adam Aja examines a 10th–9th century B.C.E.burial during the excavation of the Philistine cemetery by the...
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New Evidence Surfaces About the “Plague of Cyprian”
Source: LiveScience Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end. Working at the Funerary Complex of...
View ArticleBiblically Illiterate News Wrong about Canaanites
Source: https://evolutionnews.org Obviously, your friends at Evolution News are not here to do Biblical exegesis. However, when science headlines tendentiously try to manipulate readers in order to...
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Ravenna, Elvira, Baptism, and Shells
One of the reasons Baptismal fonts and holy water fonts were sometimes called ‘concha’, was because they had a sea shell design. For example, in the 19th century, archaeologists uncovered the Hamman...
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