What a faience head reveals about elite identity in Iron Age Israel
A 2024 study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology examines a faience head of a bearded male found at Tel Abel Beth...
How Tel Rehov shaped early Israel’s political landscape
A 2024 study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology argues that Tel Reḥov was a central player in the formation of early...
Byzantine marble imports to Phoenician villages traced to Turkey, Greece
A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in present-day Lebanon....
Study links Arabian god Kahl to smiting deity tradition
A study published in 2024 finds that the Arabian god Kahl, worshipped at Qaryat al-Fāw, was likely envisioned as a smiting or warrior...
Silver Hoard at Megiddo linked to Thutmose III’s campaign
A reexamination of the earliest silver hoard found at Megiddo suggests it was likely deposited during or after Pharaoh Thutmose III’s mid-15th century...
