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Return to the Cave of Letters: What Still Lies Buried?

By Richard A. FreundRami Arav
025 A small shovel started it all. In the summer of 1996, at the excavation of the Galilee site of Bethsaida (which we codirect), we uncovered a small bronze incense shovel. Others like it were used in the imperial cult throughout the Roman...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2001

The Rampant Rape of Israel’s Archaeological Sites

By David IlanUzi DahariGideon Avni
038 The scene was more like a moonscape than a landscape. Starlight highlighted the dark gaping holes of robbed-out tombs and collapsed underground chambers. These tombs and chambers were the reason we were here. They belonged to a necropolis in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1989

The Spade Hits Sussita

BAR Article—“Sussita Awaits the Spade”—Leads to Excavation
By Arthur SegalMichael Eisenberg
040 Fifteen years ago, I (Arthur Segal) sat in my study reading an article in BAR by Vassilios Tzaferis about Sussita, a dramatic site overlooking the Sea of Galilee that had been destroyed in a violent earthquake in 749 C.E. and had never been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

Colossal Enigmas

The ancient stone temples of Baalbek
By Arthur Segal
050 051 It is unlikely that any archaeological work will be undertaken at Baalbek in the near future. This imposing site lies about 50 miles east-northeast of Beirut (ancient Berytus), between...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

Leptis Magna: Jewel of the Maghreb

Preserved by desert sands and political isolation, this Roman city in modern Libya is still dazzling to the eye.
By Arthur Segal
045 The Arab historians and geographers who accompanied the Muslim invaders of northwestern Africa in the middle of the seventh century C.E. said it was like a large island—surrounded on the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by...
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2001

Bethsaida Rediscovered

Long-lost city found north of Galilee shore
By Rami AravRichard A. FreundJohn F. Shroder Jr.
044 Bethsaida is the town that disappeared. Soon after playing a prominent role in the Gospels—Bethsaida is mentioned more often in the New Testament than any city except Jerusalem and Capernaum—this fishing village on the Sea of Galilee simply...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2000

Raqit, Ḥorvat

By Shimon Dar
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Sumaqa, Ḥorvat

An update to Vol. 4, pp. 1412–1415.
By Shimon Dar
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Shoham

By Uzi DahariUzi ‘Ad
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Ḥorvat Ḥani

By Uzi DahariYehiel Zelinger
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Tinshemet, Ḥorvat (Church of St. Bacchus)

By Uzi Dahari
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Bethsaida (et-Tell)

By Rami Arav
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

Beth Yeraḥ

An update to Vol. 1, pp. 255–259
By Nimrod GetzovRaphael GreenbergShimon DarZeev Safrai
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008

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