Mudbrick Architecture: Social Meaning and Functionality - The Ancient Near East Today Since the Neolithic, mudbrick architecture has been one of the most widespread building traditions across the world. But a mudbrick is more than a structural unit: it is also a repository of…

Mudbrick architecture shaped daily life across the biblical world. More than building material, mudbrick encodes labour and social meaning behind homes, temples, and cities of the Bible.

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Israel’s Long History of Ritual Light Recent research on Chalcolithic cornets reveals their role as ritual lamps, shedding light on ancient ceremonial practices that predate the Bible.

Chalcolithic ceramic “cornets” from Teleilat Ghassul may have held burning substances, linking light, ritual, and holiness in the southern Levant long before the Bible.

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Gender ambiguity was a tool of power 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamia Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

Long before modern politics, ancient Mesopotamian societies recognized gender-diverse people in formal, respected roles. Texts from 3rd-millennium BCE Mesopotamia name assinnu serving Ištar and ša rēši at royal courts.

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Massive Egyptian fortress rediscovered after 3,000 years under the sand A massive Ancient Egyptian fortress emerges in the Sinai and redefines how the empire's eastern border was defended.

A massive stone fortress has re-emerged from the sands of North Sinai, reshaping views of how Egypt guarded its northeastern frontier—an area tied to the “Way of Horus” and Egypt–Levant borderlands.

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Race to save Sudan's plundered heritage as museums fall victim to war In almost three years of civil war in Sudan, the country's museums have been ravaged, with thousands of its archaeological treasures looted and feared trafficked. Researchers in Sudan and beyond are…

Sudan’s civil war has devastated museums, with thousands of artifacts looted and trafficked. The losses threaten material culture from ancient Nubia and Kush, key contexts for the biblical world’s southern neighbors.

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Ancient Egypt in Watercolors Start here—for a world of adventure

Century-old watercolours by Egyptian artist Ahmed Yousef, made during 1920s Penn Museum excavations, preserve New Kingdom tomb scenes now lost. They illuminate funerary beliefs that shaped the biblical world.

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Egypt Centre wins major funding boost to improve facilities Future visitors to a popular Swansea museum will be able to experience the sounds and smells of ancient Egypt, thanks to £300,000 of Welsh Government support.

Swansea University’s Egypt Centre is revamping its “House of Death” gallery with immersive sound and smellscapes. Ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs shaped the biblical world Exodus knew, from coffins to afterlife imagery.

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The Khalidi Library: The Preservation of Palestinian History in Jerusalem Established in 1900, the Khalidi Library was the first Arab public library formed by a private initiative in Palestine.

The Khalidi Library in Jerusalem preserves centuries of Islamic scholarship and archives beside sites sacred to the Bible. Founded in 1900, its manuscripts illuminate the lived religious, legal, and intellectual world of the city.

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Actualité | Un quartier d’habitation de l’agglomération antique de Senon (Meuse) Dans le cadre de travaux d’extension d’une maison d’habitation, la fouille d’une parcelle de 1 500 m² a permis à l’Inrap d’explorer une importante portion d’un quartier peu connu de Senon, une des…

Recent excavations at Senon (Divodurum/Metz) illuminate urban development, coin circulation, and decline in Roman Gaul, part of the same imperial, economic, and late-antique world in which biblical texts emerged. #Archaeology #RomanGaul #BiblicalWorld #LateAntiquity