Category Archives: biblical archaeology
an interesting theory on the invention of the alphabet
Story here, on Prof. Mariottini’s site. The paper on alphabetic development, which the good Professor directs our attention to, presents a theory which holds that the ancient Semitic alphabet to which both our present alphabet and the ancient Greek alphabet owe their origin is ultimately the result of informally developed figures scratched into walls by [...]
a nail from jesus’ crucifixion?
Claude Marriotini reports it. The story goes thusly: The Knights Templars, a secretive religious association of the Middle Ages, are said to have had a fort. In that fort, a nail has recently been found. What is amazing about this is that the nail is believed to date from the 1st century A.D., the same [...]
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uh oh . . . shake-up on the qeiyafa inscription
The loud buzz started with this press release. The University of Haifa announced that a Professor Galil had succesfully decrypted an ancient Hebrew inscription, which according to the press release was not only the most ancient Hebrew inscription ever found (from about 1000 B.C.), and said that “the significance of this breakthrough relates to the [...]
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solomon’s temple location settled?
Professor Claude Mariottini says that archaeologist Leen Ritmeyer “has presented a compelling argument for finding the original location of Solomon’s temple.” You can read about it for yourself here. If Leen Ritmeyer is correct, there is physical evidence now that nails down the original location of the Temple. Now that’s exciting news for biblical archaeology. [...]
one reason for ancient archaelogy, from a christian perspective,