Interim excavation report (Vicino Oriente XXIX, 2024) links a ninth-century BCE inscription and two Bronze-Age fire layers to the Judges and Exodus narratives.

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

The siege and capture of Jerusalem, well known from the Bible, is graphically reported in the Chronicle: ...

The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of that age in Jerusalem.

From signs in the stars to ancient seals unearthed in Jerusalem, there's a surprising amount of evidence of the facts around Bible stories.

How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE Hebrew Bible is only surviving account of siege that laid waste to Solomon's Temple.

Rare Jewellery And Items Found On Mount Zion Reveal Babylonian Destruction Of Jerusalem Digging on Mount Zion has uncovered ash from the fires that burned much of the city, arrows of the invaders ...

According to the texts recorded on Sennacherib's Prisms, Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem but ultimately received tribute from King Hezekiah of Judah. The biblical account, on the other hand, emphasizes ...

Scientists have studied the charred remains from an elite building that burned down to gain insight into the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. .

Biblical-Era Destruction Of Jerusalem By Babylonians Reconstructed By Ancient Fire Analysis The Babylonians were known for their no-nonsense brutality.

He describes in wrenching detail the destruction of Jerusalem, the sounds of weeping and the groans of hunger that resounded through the city during its long siege, the homes set on fire, the people ...