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Roundup of Annual Meetings

There’s Nothing Flat in San Antonio
By Hershel Shanks
The Annual Meetings were held in San Antonio, Texas, this year. They say that you can go outside the city where there are no buildings and the land is so flat that if you take a good pair of binoculars, you can see the back of your head. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2005

The Siloam Pool

Where Jesus Cured the Blind Man
By Hershel Shanks
Few places better illustrate the layered history that archaeology uncovers than the little ridge known as the City of David, the oldest inhabited part of Jerusalem. For example, to tell the story of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus cured the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2005

Was Noah’s Ark a Sewn Boat?

By Ralph K. Pedersen
The story of Noah’s Ark may be the best known of all Biblical tales. The destruction of a sinful world by an angry God, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2005

Firsthand Report: Tracking Down the Looted Treasures of Iraq

By Matthew Bogdanos
The world watched in horror as the images were flashed all over the globe: In the chaos that surrounded the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, the Iraq Museum—home to a priceless collection...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2005

First Person: Snap Judgments

Instant analysis by experts is often right—except when it’s not
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2005