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Martyrius: Lavish Living for Monks

By Yitzhak Magen
Four miles east of Jerusalem on a hilltop in the Judean desert on the road to Jericho sits Ma‘ale Adummim, a modern city of over 20 thousand people. In its midst is one of the largest, most important and most elaborate ancient monasteries in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1995

Royal Signature: Name of Israel’s Last King Surfaces in a Private Collection

By André Lemaire
The name of the northern kingdom of Israel’s last king has turned up on a beautiful seal from the eighth century B.C.E.! Although the seal did not belong to the king himself, it was the property of one of his high-ranking ministers. The king...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1995

How Mute Stones Speak: Interpreting What We Dig Up

By Shlomo Bunimovitz
The common romantic image of the archaeologist—a discoverer clearing his way through the jungle to explore ruined cities and temples or crawling into mysterious tombs full of ancient...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1995

Jerusalem Down Under: Tunneling Along Herod’s Temple Mount Wall

By Dan Bahat
Between 1968 and 1982 and from 1985 to the present, Israel’s Ministry of Religious Affairs has exposed over 900 feet of the western wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by digging a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1995

Scholars Speak Out

By Hershel Shanks
What is Biblical archaeology’s greatest achievement? What is Biblical archaeology’s greatest failure? What is Biblical archaeology’s greatest challenge? BAR asked a wide variety of scholars to answer these three questions. Their replies...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1995