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Bible Discoveries

"...when your children ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?'...you shall answer them" (Joshua 4:6-7).

Archaeologists and other pioneers have discovered many places and objects described in the pages of the Bible—providing evidence for what skeptics called fictitious cities and even empires.

  • by Mario Seiglie, Scott Ashley, Tom Robinson
After 35 long years of searching (from 1972 to 2007), Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer thinks he has finally found his long-sought prize—the tomb of Herod the Great. If true, it sheds more light on this important biblical figure.
  • by Mario Seiglie, Scott Ashley, Tom Robinson
For years scholars have puzzled over a curious detail mentioned in the Gospel of John concerning Jewish burial practices in the first century. In describing the entombments of Jesus Christ (John 20:7) and His friend Lazarus (John 11:44), John writes of both men having had their bodies wrapped with a linen cloth for burial, but with a separate, smaller cloth wrapped around their heads.
  • by Lorelei Nettles
Was the story of Noah based on other mythical stories, or were these stories actually a retelling of a real historic event?
  • by Jerold Aust, Scott Ashley
Archaeology—subject as it is to archaeologists' decisions, interpretations and even biases—is admittedly not an exact science. Yet, when viewed objectively, the evidence uncovered at Jericho precisely fits with the biblical account.
  • by Mario Seiglie
Did the Exodus really happen? Did God deliver the ancient Israelites from Egyptian slavery as the Bible describes? Contrary views have generated much publicity, but the facts of the Bible's side of the argument are seldom told.
  • by Mario Seiglie
For years critics of the Bible viewed the historical accounts of the Gospels as little more than a fraud. However, a wealth of archaeological discoveries paints a picture that confirms many of the details surrounding Christ's birth.