Pharaoh’s Brick Makers Israelite construction workers in Egypt Marek Dospěl May 17, 2022 1 Comments 16557 views Share THE PYRAMID OF PHARAOH DJOSER (27th century B.C.E.), in Saqqara, was the first built in stone. Rooted in the tradition of monumental architecture built with mudbricks and light materials, Djoser’s pyramid complex exhibits many features developed for … Lire la suite
Are we alone? Are we living in a real “Twilight Zone?” Up until recently, UFO chasers and alien enthusiasts may have received a polite nod from their fellow man followed by a swift shuffle away. However, ufologists suddenly enjoyed newfound legitimacy in 2017 when news broke about the existence of a secret Pentagon program to … Lire la suite
Does the Church of the Redeemer hold the answer? Biblical Archaeology Society Staff May 17, 2022 21 Comments 163054 views Share Does the Church of the Redeemer (pictured here) provide evidence that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the authentic site of Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified? Where is Golgotha today in Jerusalem? According … Lire la suite
On March 26, 1351, in the Duchy of Brittany in western France, two teams of knights, squires and men-at-arms faced off across a field midway between Josselin and Ploërmel castles. Though it was springtime and far from the dog days of summer, sweat streamed down the faces of those assembled. From either side men clad … Lire la suite
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leaders of Finland and Sweden announced their official move to apply to join NATO. The Sunday announcement “changes decades of Finnish policy toward the Cold War-era military alliance and it upends more than two centuries of Swedish policy,” according to NPR. For decades, Finland — which shares … Lire la suite
Biblical Archaeology 101: Exploring the Archaeologist’s Toolkit Nathan Steinmeyer May 16, 2022 0 Comments 86 views Share Student excavating with a trowel at Khirbet el-Ra’i. Courtesy Nathan Steinmeyer. With advances in technology, there are more archaeology tools than ever to help excavators dig into the past. Yet sometimes there is no substitute for a trusty … Lire la suite
Centinaia di migliaia di persone ogni anno partono per Regno Unito, sia per vedere le strade delle capitali che per esplorare le bellezze naturali del paese. Sebbene molti optino per questo viaggio per vedere alcuni dei monumenti più famosi, spesso hanno anche un’altra motivazione. Molti film e spettacoli famosi sono stati girati nel Regno Unito, … Lire la suite
The end of the 1967 Six-Day War left Israeli forces on the east side of the Suez Canal and Egyptian forces on the west side, but there was no peace agreement, only an informal ceasefire. On March 8, 1969, a frustrated Egyptian Presi-dent Gamal Abdel Nasser declared an end to the ceasefire and started the “War … Lire la suite
AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHED in 1942, a young cryptographer named Leo Marks sat in an office on Baker Street in London, trying to understand what was bothering him. Marks worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the clandestine outfit Prime Minister Winston Churchill had ordered to “set Europe ablaze” with sabotage operations. His job was to … Lire la suite
It was one minute before high noon on Oct. 27, 1962, the day that later became known as “Black Saturday.” More than 100,000 American troops were preparing to invade Cuba to topple Fidel Castro’s communist regime and destroy dozens of Soviet intermediate- and medium-range ballistic missiles thought to be aimed at targets in the United … Lire la suite
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