The existence of foreign Palestinian ceramic imports at Maadi, a busy trading center near Cairo, has long been known and has factored heavily in discussions about its place in the relative chronological sequence of Late Predynastic Lower Egypt. Designated Ware V, or `Palestinian Ware', by the excavators, these imports were limited to one principal form:

A globular jar with broad, flat base, high shoulder, and long, pronounced cylindrical neck. Ledge- or lug handles were usually found attached to the shoulder. Besides its unique form, Ware V pottery has also exhibited manufacturing techniques and clay compositions not found in local wares. 31 complete jars were recovered ...'

On what basis were the finds at Maadi dated to Pre-Dynastic times? The author states:

"Since chronological correlations between two regions are essential to any discussion of the nature of their interaction, a basic chronological framework needs to be in place before an examination of the archaeological evidence can begin."

What we have to be careful of as a result of the above sentence is that it is not part of `circular reasoning'. If pottery finds and artifacts figure in establishing dynastic times then one cannot securely determine dynastic times on the same type of evidence. An argument could be made that subsistence economy was in place throughout all ages.

Funeral Ceremonies for Israelite Kings

From long ago Jerusalem was surrounded by fields and orchards but west of the city arose 20 mysterious earth and stone mounds. Albright excavated mound #2 in the 1920's and found them to contain Early Iron pot sherds which he attributed to 1100 BC. Later digs by Ruth Amiran determined the three mounds she exposed were of late kingdom of Judah times. So we read: "Hezekiah slept with his fathers and they buried him with the sons of David, and all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death." [2.Chr. 32:33; Jeremiah 34:5] The `honor' paid by all of Judah and Jerusalem is mentioned after the king was buried, so it apparently does not refer to the funeral. Giving honor is a separate matter. On the death of king Asa he was buried, "in his own sepulcher ... A very great fire was made in his honour." [Ibid. 16:14] On the death of Jehoram, "His people made no fire for him ..." [Ibid. 21:19] These `mounds of burning' were protected in that people were not allowed to take stones from them for their own projects. When a king died, a month or so later, after the king was buried in the City of David, a ceremony took place for all the people (2.Chr. 32:33). There was no space for them in the narrow streets of Jerusalem. To avoid damaging agricultural plantations that ringed the city, they gathered on the barren hills outside the city. The entire ceremony took only a few hours. A platform was built around which the crowd stood in sorrow. Perhaps there were a few speeches, then a huge fire was ignited in memory of the deceased king. Afterward each participant took a basket of stones and dirt and piled the material within rings of stone walls in order to cover the place of burning, forming a large artificial memorial mound. (Jeremiah 34:5) It is interesting that there are 19 (or 20) of these mounds. Between king David and Zedekiah, there were 21 kings. [Gabrial Barkay, Mounds of Mystery in BAR, Vol. 29, May/Jun, 2003, p. 32-39f.]

(01) A Coney (Rock Rabbit) can be seen in BAR, Jan/Feb 1992, p. 27. The same page also shows a family of Wild Pigs.
(02) The color ink drawing of a `hoopoe' (Wiedehopf in Deutsch) in BAR, Jul/Aug 2002, p. 54.
(03) The exquisite raised relief carving of a barn owl and a dung beetle with missing head can be seen in KMT, Fall 2004, p. 45.
(04) A fine bass specimen can be seen in BAR, Nov 1989, p. 64.
(05) A full page color image of a Biblical, two straight up, long horned Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) in BA, Sep 1984, p. 67, Num 24:8, Deut 33:17, Job 39:9-10; Psalm 22:21, thought to be the type animal for a unicorn.
(06) Egyptian vultures in Eretz, Dec 2002, p. 48-50, and the head of a rare white tailed (otherwise grey brown with a yellowish beak) Sea Eagle with a 2.4 m wing span, p. 52.

01) `Red Sand Stone Pueblos' of the Sunagua Indians at the `Wupatki Nat. Mon.' Highway 89, Sunset Crater in northern Arizona and Little Springs, 15 miles north of the Grand Canyon and 40 miles from the nearest paved road in the Arizona Strip to see `sherd rocks' and the remains of a 900 year old pueblo. Archaeology, Mar 2004, p. 51.

A list of Crusader Period Castles and Contemporary and Later Remains: [Regine Pernoud, `In the Steps of the Crusaders', N.Y., 1959.]

Evolutionary geologists use rocks to date the fossils, and use fossils to date the rocks. This is a classic case of circular reasoning.

It is interesting to note how, once an idea gets into the literature, it can become entrenched in conventional scholarly thinking. I remember doing research on the ancient site of Hama in Syria. As I was reading through the excavation reports (published in French), I came across a reference to a figurine from the 2nd millennium which the excavator thought must be a horse, but the strange hump in the middle of its back made one think of a camel. I looked at the photograph and the figurine was obviously that of a camel! This scholar was so influenced by the idea that camels were not used until the 1st millennium, that when he found a figurine of one in the second millennium, he felt compelled to call it a horse! This is a classic example of circular reasoning. [Randall Younker at: http://www.aiias.edu/ict/vol_26B/26Bcc_457-477.htm]

Logical Fallacies

If you assume the very premise you're trying to prove, you are "begging the question." This fallacy is also known as "arguing in a circle," or "circular reasoning." The purpose of deductive reasoning is to get from one point in an argument (the premise) to another (the conclusion) in a logical manner. But a circular argument does not allow this progression. If the premise or beginning of the argument is identical to its conclusion, the argument doubles back on itself and becomes barren. [From:http://home.comcast.net/~dchapman2146/pf_v5n1/Fallacies.htm]

The Charles Ginenthal example:

"Astronomers, in attempting to deal with this evidence respecting Venus, either ignore the data or invent systems to explain it away so that it will conform to their uniformitarian view. By employing a sledge hammer, they smash the tablets of Ammizaduga to bits and then reassemble the fragments to prove that Venus' orbit has never changed. Although Velikovsky does not explain the precise cause for the circularization of Venus' orbit except to invoke electromagnetic forces, the plain evidence of the ancient astronomers shows that Venus' orbit was different, and therefore, more elliptical than its present, almost circular orbit and thus, there must exist a force that circularized it."
This is a bona-fide example of circular reasoning. The tablets are changed in translation to conform with what everybody KNOWS to be reality i.e. uniformitarianism. Then these same mis-translated tablets are used by the typical yuppie "scientist" to refute Velikovsky. [From:http://www.skepticfiles.org/neocat/ammi.htm]

Velikovsky's Circular Reasoning

It is true, though, that the pseudoscientist often invents a theory to fit his beliefs, then uses the beliefs to support the theory. This type of circular reasoning is common among those who use ancient myths to support their theories and their theories to explain the ancient myths.
Compare the work of von Daniken and Velikovsky and that of Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976). [From: http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/map_intro/creationscience.html]

Egyptian Chronology as a Pseudo-Global Item

Egyptian chronology was mentioned above as something which has been used as a Global framework, but it was implied that this was not entirely correct. The problem is that Egyptian chronology, per se, simply does not exist. What we call Egyptian chronology is the reconstruction of modern scholars, and incorporates the conclusions of archeology and other disciplines of ancient history, something which is often overlooked. As a result of this, when other disciplines attempt to use Egyptian chronology as a Global framework, they are often engaging unbeknown in circular reasoning. Worse, the elements of their own disciplines which are being fed back into themselves may be ones which have been superseded, but this has not yet had the proper effect on Egyptian chronology.
Another point is that what passes for a Global chronology is actually a collection of Dynastic chronologies linked together. It is given scale and placement in time through linkages with stratigraphic sequences (primarily of the Land of Israel) and the Dynastic chronologies of other nations, and by the use of highly theoretical interpretations of astronomical data. But there is no coherent source which can be said to provide a reliable account of ancient Egyptian history, and without such a source, it is hard to see how Egyptian chronology can be seen as a true Global item.
Of course, it is not a given that a Global level will always be available. As mentioned above, if there is none, the alternative is to do the best we can with lower levels. This is what has been done with Egyptian chronology. [Lisa Liel at http://www.starways.net/lisa/essays/care.html]

The `Victory Stela' was found at Susa and is now in the Louvre Museum. The bas-relief was found near Diarbekr, in Kurdistan, and last we read was in the Museum of Constantinopel. [L.A. Waddel, `Egyptian Civilization', London, 1930, pl. IX and X.] Naram-Sin has been described as the son of Sargon of Akkad. [Prof. Theodor G. Pinches, The Early Babylonia King-Lists in PSBA, June 1885, p. 65-71.

The `Paradise Legend' of Sumer

The tablet containing part of this legend has it that `paradise' is located in a land called Tilmun upon which the great god Enki pours his blessings including the wish that,

".. the land of Meluhha bring you ... precious carnelian, mes-shagan wood, fine sea-wood, large ships;
.. the land of Marhashi bring you precious stone, crystal;
.. the land of Magan bring you mighty copper, the strength of ... diorite."
[American Heritage, `Mysteries of the Past', 1977, p. 162.]

What is described as Iron I period kilns produced vast amounts of pottery found in the vicinity of a number of kilns of which one is shown in operation. The cultic focus building 350 in Iron I Ekron consisted of a square building with the entrance on one side near a corner leading into a room which used up half the space of the building. The central separating wall from the other half had three doors leading into three chambers behind it. Archaeologists found a round hearth made of hundreds of small wadi pebbles imbedded in the floor as found before at Pylos and on Cyprus. Also shown are what is described as 21st dynasty type art of a) 7 pendants depicting the cow headed Hathor, b) ivory and faience ear plugs which may have adorned someone's ear lobe, c) 2 faience rings, one with the goddess Sekhmet incised, d) a speckled stone bowl, e) an ivory human head, f) a painted limestone baboon, g) 3 wheels and a decorative bud of a small version of a four wheeled, eight spoked cast bronze cult stand of the type made by King Hiram of Tyre, 1.Kings 7:27-37, and h) a double headed chariot linch pin. [Trude Dothan & Seymour Gittin, `Ekron of the Philistines' in BAR, Jan/Feb 1990, p. 20-36.]

Information on Khirbet(s)

For info and B&W views on Khirbet el-Meshash see Volkmer Fritz, The Israelite Conquest in BASOR, Winter 1981, p. 61-73.
For info on Khirbet en-Nahas, located south of the Dead Sea in the rift valley, see `Archaeology Odyssey,' May/Jun 2005, p. 14.

The Priest's grave of Tel Nami

Found in 1989, 8 miles south of Haifa, a headless ivory scepter decorated with incised designs from a robbed grave, two bronze scepters topped by a pomegranate bud, one of which appeared to have had a silver sheathing which disappeared after exposed to air, a bronze incense burner with hanging pomegranate (Punica granatum) seed buds and two gold earrings shaped like pomegranate blossoms. [Michael Artzy, `Pomegranate Sceptors .. in Priest's Grave', Ibid., p. 48-51.]

TSBA Vol. I
1872, Introduction.;
The Progress of Biblical Archaeology (Inaugural Address). Note: To us it seems more to be a set back of Biblical ancient history brought about by minds who advocated humanism and millions of years at the expense of internal Biblical reliability - putting man's wisdom above everything else.
On an ancient eclipse.; On an hieroglyphic tablet of Alexander, son of Alexander the Great, recently discovered at Cairo.; Early history of Babylonia.; On the date of the nativity.; Note on the religious belief of the Assyrians.; On the discovery of some Cypriote inscriptions. On the reading of the Cypriote inscriptions.; Lettre au Tres-Reverend Doyen de Westminster sur le site de Capharnaum, de Khorazyn, et Beth-Sayda (Julias).; Cypriote inscriptions - On the reading of the inscription on the bronze plate of Dali (Idalium).; Hebræo- Ægyptiaca.; Cyrus the Second - Concerning Cyrus son of Cambyses king of Persia and of Mandane daughter of Astyages, who overthrew Babylon and released the Jews; as distinguished from Cyrus father of Cambyses, who conquered Astyages and founded the Empire of the Medes and Persians.; The Prideaux Pentateuch.; A fragment of ancient Assyrian mythology.; The Assyrian verbs `basu', `to be', `qabah' `to say' and `isa' `to have' identified as variant forms of verbs having the same signification in the Hebrew language.; The origin of Semitic civilization, chiefly upon philological evidence.; Jerusalem, an introduction to its archaeology and topography.; The new Moabite stone.; Observations on the base length of the Great Pyramid and royal coffers dimensions.;

TSBA Vol. VII
May 1880, Note on a sepulchral monument from Palmyra.; Egyptian documents relating to the statues of the dead - Notes, p. 6-36, Includes the detail mapped plan of the Mound of Kouyunjik (in color).; Excavations and discoveries in Assyria Includes a map of the Mound of Balawat, The plan of the temple of Assur-nazir-pal, Situated N of the palace of the NW palace of Nimroud.; On a recently discovered text of Assur-natsir-pal.; The bronze gates discovered by Mr. Rassam at Balawat - Part I - Notes.; Image of the Stele of Ramses II at Abu Simbel.; Le Décret de Phtah Totunen en faveur de Ramsés II et de Ramsés III - Notes.; Theodore Pinches, On a cuneiform inscription relating to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus and the events which preceded and led to it.;
Jan 1881, Prof. T. Hayter Lewis, Tell El-Yahoudeh - Includes a color sketch map and tiles.; On some monuments of the reign of Tirhakah.; A new fragment of the history of Nebuchadnezzar III. (Theodore Pinches); Description of the so-called tomb of St. Luke at Ephesus.; Letter from Edward Falener upon the so-called tomb of St. Luke at Ephesus.; The monuments of the Hittites - Includes a sketch map of Turkey, a relief stone of a king from Birejik and the 1st and 2nd Pseudo-Sesostris.; Appendix.; The bilingual Hittite and cuneiform inscription of Tarkondemos, "Tarrik-timme king of the country of Ermé.".; Leut. Col. Warren, The site of the temple of the Jews.; The monuments and inscriptions on the Rocks at Nahr El-Kelb.;
May 1882, The Stele of Mentuhotep - Notes.; The Assyrian Numerals.; Rev. Henry G. Tomkins, The campaign of Ramses II in his 5th year against Kadesh on the Orontes.; The contract tablet from the 17th year of Nabonidus.; The Papyrus of Bek-en-amen in the municipal Museum of Bologna.; The inscribed stones from Jerabis, Hamath, Aleppo, &.;

TSBA Vol. VIII
Jan 1883, Eugéne Revillout, `Les Anathémes d'une mére payenne contre son fils devenu chrétien'.; `Piéces relatives à un mariage du temps de Darius'.; The poor laws of the ancient Hebrews (The laws governing how to treat the poor among the ancient Hebrews.); The birds of the Assyrien monuments and records', p. 42-142.;
Jul 1883, On a (hieroglyphic) tablet in the British Museum relating to two architects.; `The antiquities found by Mr. H. Rassam at Abu-Habbah (Sippara)'; `Recent discoveries of ancient Babylonian cities.'; Egyptian mythology, particularly with reference to mist and clouds, - Appendix.; `Akkadian precepts for the conduct of man in his private life.', p. 230-270; `Babylonian legal documents referring to house property, and the law of inheritance', p. 271- 298.;
Jan 1885, `Notes on Egyptian stelae, principally of the 18th dynasty', p. 299- 346.; Babylonian art by Mr. H. Rassam's latest discoveries.; Biblical nationalities past and present, p. 358-385.; On the shadow of the dead. (Based on hieroglyphic texts.); Handicrafts and artizans mentioned in Tamuic writings.; `L'inscription de la destruction des hommes dans le tombeau de Ramses III.';

TSBA Vol. IX
Dec 1886, Memoir of the late Samuel Birch (Nov. 3, 1813 - Dec 27, 1885). His father, also named Samuel Birch (Nov 7, 1757 - Dec 1841), son of Lucas Birch, was Alderman, elected Mayor and politically active.; F.G. Hilton Price, `Notes on the antiquities from Bubastis (Tel Basta)'; E.A.Wallis Budge, The Martyrdom of Isaac of Tiphre. (The first patriarch of Alexandria, called 'John', was head of the church 498-507 AD. See Le Quies, Oriens. Christ, Vol. II, pp. 423-425.; Eusebius Renaudot, Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum Jacobitarum, Paris, 1713, pp. 125, 126.); Prof. Sayce, The Karian Language and Inscriptions, pp. 112-154. Reading some of the articles of this professor and all others, we can tell today that they subverted the word of God, rather then helped it, for they believed in a false chronology which resulted in false history, which resulted in the denial of the Word of God.; The Weasel and the Cat in ancient times.; Par E. Lefebure, Le Cham et l'Adam Egyptiennes.; Ancient traditions of supernatural voices.; The Apocalypse of Abraham.;
Jun 1893, Rev. Henry G. Tomkins, `On the topography of northern Syria,' pp. 227-280. (Contains drawn image of hieroglyphs of ThutIII city list at Karnak).; The myth of Osiris Unnefer.; On some religious texts of the early Egyptian period.; The tower of Babel and the Birs Nimroud.(Contains 2 images of Peking Altar.); F.G. Hilton Price, Notes upon some Egyptian antiquities in my collection. (A board from a sepulchral box with a figure of Thoth and inscription containing the name of an unidentified king.); On the fragments of a Coptic version of an enconium on Elijah the Tishbite attributed to St. John Chrysostom.; The Sahidic translation of the Book of Job.;

PSBA Vol I
Nov 1878, The `Royal Societies' first meeting, Nov 5th, 1878, Samuel Birch, President.; Royal Library, Berlin and Manchester Free Public Library.; Theodore Pinches reading of the paper `Upon the Bronze Gates of Shalmanezer II (859-825 BC)' discovered by Rassam at (the city of Imgur-Beli) now represented by the mound of Balawat, Part I.; The gates were a pair of enormous folding rectangular leaves each about 22 feet in height and 6 feet wide, of which 14 were found in various states of preservation. Originally of 3 inch wood they turned on pivots of bronze fixed to the base of cylindrical posts about 1 foot in diameter, supported at the top by strong rings.; The remaining bronze plates were 8 feet in length and nailed with bronze nails horizontally across each leaf of the gates, one end being turned around the post to which the pivot was fixed, their visible length being about 6 feet.; Notes on a bilingual inscription in Latin and Aramaic found at South Shields, reading: "DM · REGINA·LIBERTA ·ET ·CONIVGE ·BARATES ·PALMYRENVS ·NATIONE ·CATVALLAVNA ·AN ·XXX." `Erected to the memory of a woman named Regina, of the [British tribe of the] Catuvellauni, who died at the age of 30, the freed-woman and wife of one Barates, a Palmyrene.' The Aramaic line transcribed in Hebrew reads, , `Regina, the freed woman of Barate, alas'.; The last phrase `' is dicussed as `woe' as in `woe is unto me' or `upon me'.
Jan 1879, Reading on Babylonian (contract) Tablets from Dr. Julius Oppert, to show the difference to Assyrian tablets.;
Feb 1879, Reading of a excerpts of a long will of a Coptic monk of Egypt.;
Mar 1879, `The word "ka" (), in the sense of `image,' might help to explain the origin and meaning of some obscure Hebrew terms connected with idolatrous and superstitious practices which had been condemned by the prophets of Israel.' The word , `kavanim' occurs in Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:19 (the whole chapter) and refers to small figures made of dough in honour of the queen of heaven. This practice appears to have originated in Egyptian idolatry, Jeremiah 64:12-16. By 1879 only one passage in the Book of the Dead which mentions the soul, `ka', as being immortal. But this one passage states in words what the drawn images illustrate.
Apr 1879, Some information on Seti I (on file).
May 1879, Notes on vegetable remains in Egyptian tombs, fruits of Hyphæne Argun, the Doum Palm - Hyphæne thebaica, coniferous plants like Juniperus phœnicia and mummy case wood of Cordia myxa.
Jun 1879, A little on `Early Semitic inscriptions from Babylonia.'

PSBA Vol. II
Nov 1879, Rassam communication on progress in Assyria.
Dec 1879, On the Samarians in Talmudic writings.
Jan 1880, Society business balance: £ 662.13.
Feb 1880, Remarks on excavations made at Tel el-Yahoudee and some antiquities brought from there. Many of the tiles were brought to the BM by Mr. Greville Chester. Some tiles were ... inlaid with mosaics, others with brilliant enamels. No such work is known to have been used either by the Egyptians or Assyrians in decorating their walls ... In Persia, inlaid enameled tiles have been used for many centuries, but no antique specimens (they mean before Persian times, ie Ramses III 1200 BC conventional times) are known, so far as I am aware, to exist. The greater part of the tiles from Tel el-Yahoudee are purely Egyptian in design, and many of them bear the name - a title of Ramses III.; but some others (always in circular form and without hieroglyphics) are distinguished from the rest in a curious way,, viz., by having stamped upon them, on the reverse side, the Greek letters, A and E. These are the only two letters noticed, and the A has a peculiar form, used, as far as is known to the writer, at about the time of the Ptolemies, and not before." Comment: In our revision Ptolemy I became king of Egypt in 305 BC, only 56 years after the death of Ramses III and 45 years or less after the last of Ramses sons died.
Mar 1880, Notes on Assyrian numerals; On the capture of Babylon; On the existence and expression in Assyrian of the hard guttural sound of the Hebrew .
Apr 1880, Paper read: Description of the so-called Tomb of St. Luke at Ephesus.; (Very Brief) Notes on the Characters, Phonetics, and Language of the Akkadians and pre-Akkadians.;
May 1880, On the `Libation vase of Osor-ur, preserved in the Museum of the Louvre.' No. 908.; Monuments of the reign of Tirhaka.; Briefs, On the written Assyrian language.;
Jun 1880, The site of the Temples of the Jews (Jerusalem).;
Jul 1880, The Hittite Monuments.;

PSBA Vol. III
Nov 1880, The bilingual Hittite and Cuneiform inscription of Tarkondemos.;
Dec 1880, The Book of Hades - carved on the sarcophagus of Seti I. discovered by Belzoni in 1815 in his tomb at Biban-el-Molouk.; Pinches, Notes on a new list of the Babylonian kings.;
Jan 1881, Society reports.; Notes on a new list of early Babylonian kings - Contains extensive cuneiform lists.; Hieroglyphics attached to the statue of Cybele near Magnesia ad Sipylum.; Translation of the Hebrew Cobham Inscription from Cyprus: "This stele to Eshmun his lord (dedicates) Sardal, the son of Abd-melkart the son of Rashshaph-yathon, the interpreter of the two thrones (or courts)."
Feb 1881, On an Egyptian tablet in the BM, on two architects of the XIXth Dynasty.; `Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer', German, meaning `Excerpts of Syrian Documents on Persian Martyrs.'; Divergent opinion on the Cobham Inscription: Wants to read `interpreter' as `orator, etc..
Mar 1881, `Notices in ancient Jewish Writings of the sagacity and habits of ants.'; A few words on a fragment of a Phoenician inscription found recently at Lanarca.;
Apr 1881, `Ernest de Bunsen, `The Times of Israel's Servitude and Sojourning in Egypt.' States Abraham entered Egypt 215 years before Jacob, that the Shepherds ruled Egypt then and the Exodus took place at the beginning of the 18th dynasty in 1563 BC. Mr. Villiers Stuart disagreed and said: "It is with great reluctance that I venture to differ from our distinguished lecturer, but the difficulties in the way of accepting his conclusions appear to me insuperable. There is at Karnac a great wall erected by Thothmes III to commemorate his campaign in Palestine: it is, in fact, his diary of the expedition. He gives the names of the towns he stopped at, the councils of war he held with his generals. He overran and conquered the whole country. It is incredible that had this event taken place subsequently to the occupation of Palestine by the children of Israel, no notice should have been taken of it in the Bible Record, which mentions every other Egyptian and Assyrian invasion. The inference is therefore that Palestine had not been occupied by the Israelites in the time of Thothmes III of the XVIIIth dynasty, and therefore that the Exodus could not have taken place in the time of Ahmeses, the ancestor of Thothmes. .... It seems probable to me that it was in the time of the Shepherd Kings that Jacob visited Egypt: the Shepherd Kings were cousins of the Hebrews, and that would count for their friendly reception; but when after Joseph's death [Joseph], the Shepherd Kings were defeated at Avaris by Ahmes, the Hebrew bondage began: Ahmes in fact was the king who knew not Joseph, and enslaved the Hebrews; their slavery lasted all through the period of the XVIIIth dynasty, and terminated in the Exodus in the XIXth. .... The Bible tells us that the children of Israel built the city of Rameses for the king - now no king by the name of Rameses occurs in the XVIIIth dynasty, but it is a family name of the XIXth dynasty; and there is moreover in Egyptian records, evidence that the city of Rameses was in fact built in the reign of Rameses II - the great builder king - and became his favorite residence. ..." Comment: While remains of the time of Ramses II are found in many places in Egypt, Pi-Ramesses, if correctly identified, also showed many of his remains. However, that does not mean these remains are those of the time of Israel's sojourn in Egypt. Many times, Ramses II remains are found rather close to the surface and one must look deeper for 17-16th centuries BC remains. See the various links for the revised position.
Continuing Apr 1881, Pinches, `The consonants S,R and L in Assyrian.';
May 1881, On the recent discovery of the pyramids of Sakkara.; The date of Menes, and the date of Buddha.; Prof. Dr. A. Eisenlohr, University of Heidelberg, on how much we still need to learn on the ancient history of Egypt (12th dyn, Shepherds, etc.).; On a tblet of Antef-aa II, Mentuhotep III (Ra-neb Kher), successor Antef IV, etc. (on file). Contains image of a rock carving at Hosh - Gebel Silsilis and its hieroglyphic remains.;
Jun 1881, Rassam discoveries at Aboo-hassam (Siparra - the principal seat of Sun-god worship of the inscriptions.), 16 miles southwest of Baghdad (of the 19th century); Notes on the recently discovered Pyramid of Pepi (dyn. 6) at Sakkara.; On the stele of Mentuhotep; Was Piankhi a synonym for Sabako? - Contains multiple drawings of the Pyramid of King Pepi Upper Vertical Inscriptions and Quarry marks.;

[http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/10/jerusalem.road.discovery/index.html?hpt=T2] Jerusalem (CNN) -- Archaeologists working under the direction of the Israeli Antiquities Authority have uncovered a 1,500-year-old road running through the center of Jerusalem's Old City. Excavation director Dr. Ofer Sion said the discovery lends further credence to the accuracy of what is known as the Madaba Map -- a Byzantine period mosaic map of the Holy Land that depicts an entrance into Jerusalem that leads to a single central street. Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have made various finds to suggest the Madaba map was geographically correct, but the road depicted in the mosaic had not been found. "It is proof of this beautiful map and for this street from the Byzantine period," Sion told reporters at the dig location. The ancient road was found near the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem's Old City 4.5 meters under current street level when municipality workers initiated an infrastructure improvement project. The road dates from the period when Jerusalem was under Christian control and was constructed with large flagstones of more than a meter in length. The road connected the western wall of the city to the eastern side of Jerusalem, Sion said. When the street was in use according to Sion, "hundreds of thousands of people are reaching the city, pilgrims from all over the world, and they are coming to Jerusalem and entering through the gate and going down the center, to the market of the city. They are going down in this street." Next to the road archaeologists also discovered a stone foundation which supported a sidewalk and a row of columns. "It is wonderful to see that David Street, which is teeming with so much life today, actually preserved the route of the noisy street from 1,500 years ago," Sion said. Other artifacts discovered in the excavation included coins, pottery vessels, and five bronze weights that are believed to have been used by merchants for weighing precious metals. The Madaba map, is a large 8 X 16 meter mosaic located in the apse of the church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. It is the oldest known cartographic representation of the Holy Land and at it's center is a detailed depiction of Jerusalem in the sixth century AD. The mosaic has served as a guide to historians and archaeologists to what Byzantine period Jerusalem may have looked like and depicts many landmarks that survive until this day including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Damascus Gate. ************ PSBA Vol. IV
Nov 1881, Rev. Henry George Tomkins on the campaign of Ramses II in his 5th year against Kadesh on the Orontes.; On a newly discoveredcuneiform inscription on the bank of the Dog River.; On cuneiform tablets from Cappadocia. Contains images of the writing.;
Dec 1881, More on Cappadocian tablets.;
Jan 1882, 1 page dido on 4 seal inscriptions (on file).;
Feb 1882, On the birds of the Assyiran records.;
Mar 1882, Egyptian mythology - Mist and Cloud.; Fl. Petrie, On pottery and implements collected at Giseh.; A Christian mosaic of the 5th century at Ravenna.;
May 1882, Notes on glass in ancient Hebrew records.; Rules of life among the ancient Akkadians.; Trip report to Tel el-Yahoudeh.;
Jun 1882, `The epoch of Joseph: Amenhotep IV as the Pharaoh of the famine.; Reply to Assyrian numerals.; The Phoenicians in Egypt.; The Coptic inscriptions of Beni-Hassan and Deir el-Medineh.; Exploring Lake Moeris with charts and map.; Various Notes.;

PSBA Vol. V
Nov 1882, On the Demotic Papyrus containing the Malediction of an Egyptian Mother on her Son embracing Christianity.; Theo. Pinches, `Some recent discoveries hearing on the ancient history and chronology of Babylonia.'; On the value a the hieroglyphic sign .; George Bertin, `On the character and influence of the accent in the Akkadian and Assyrian words.'; T. Pinches, `Introduction, Assyrian Grammar (on file)';
Dec 1882, Houses and householders in the time of Christ.; Dr. Reichhardt, `Exhibition of cylinder seal', to be published with an engraving in a future # of Proceedings. (Number #??); The Kappadokian cuneiform inscription now at Kaisariyeh. (on file);
Jan 1883, The ancient geography of northern Syria.; Citing the `Karnak List of City Names', #270 was read as Karkamasha/ Karkemish, attacked in the 4th campaign by Thutmoses III, with certainty by M. Golenischeff; #280 Pethri was thought to be Assyr. Pitru, Pethor, the home of Balaam, at the junction of the Sajur with the Euphrates; #311 Khalebu is Aleppo, which had a Sutek.; #313 Aurma; #314 Samaarua?; #316 Pureth is Purat namely Phrats, Euphrates; p. 60; The authors, however, keep trying to put Ramses II battle against Kadesh far to the south while apparently not realizing the importance of the place names cited. - See also the same hieroglyphic read by Golenischeff how it was read by Breastedt, J., Records, Vol. II, par. 479, 583, p. 231, where Carchemish is transliterated from the hieroglyphics by Breastedt as `K-ry-k-my--š', as it was read in the Annals II of Thutmose III. about his northern march.
Feb 1883, Babylonian tablets relating to householding.; Pinches, `The name Ben-Hadad.' (on file); Remarks on a board with an hieratic inscription, and four sepulchral vases.;
Mar 1883, Recent discoveries of ancient Babylonian cities.; Some ostraka, or inscribed potsherds, of the time of the twelve Caesars.;
Apr 1883, `The Poor Laws of the Hebrews.; Exhibition of flint instruments from Egypt.; Observations on Canopic Vases from Tel-Basta, exhibited by F.G. Hilton-Price.(on file); Prof. W. Wright, `On five Phoenician gems.' p. 100. (on file);
Notes on gems: (1) This is a bloodstone/ redstone from Persia which is pierced lengthwise. The paleo-Hebrew letters are `Ani' the pronunciation of it is unknown. It was judged not to be a seal of a Hebrew.; (2) This is a carnelian/ carnallite which occur in Germany and Iran with some frequency, purchased in Beirut. The Hebrew letters read, "Belonging to Temakh-el, the son of Hpt (`Huppath?' 1.Chr. 24:13)." The radical is well known in the Old Testament. The name is found to be that of an Aramean in Levy, Siegel und Gemmen, p. 15, no. 22, or perhaps that of a Phoenician , p. 24, no. 4.; (3) This is a red opaque stone pierced lengthwise from Damascus. The name is read as "Yedar-el (?)", `God marshals, God herds', may be compared with the biblical . The lower line shows a small bird, perhaps a swallow? Next it show a star or sun and the well known symbol of a sun disk, wafer, resting in a crescent moon, ancient symbol of cosmic conception, as used and adopted in the monstrance.; (4a) This gem's upper line reads, "Belonging to Ksr (?)." The second line is doubtful and no reading was made.;
Pinches, A) `Contract tablet from Babylon inscribed with unknown characters.'; Image of a Bronze mold for arrow tips, p. 109. (on file);
May 1883, Plate of images of Terra-Cotta seals in the possession of M. Schlumberger, Paris.(on file); Ancient observations on the flight of pigeons. (They fly which ever way and aim to their home perch.); On the origin of the Cypriote Syllabary.; Remarks on two ostraca at Queens College, Oxford.; Prof. John P. Peters, `The Akkadian Numerals. (on file); Dr. Oppert, `Contract tablet from Babylon, inscribed with unknown characters.'; Ostraka of the reigns of Nerva and Trajan.;
Jun 1883, Renouf, `An Egyptian preposition.' (on file); Underground structures in biblical lands.; Rylands, `The inscriptions of Aleppo.'; Pleyte, `Mentions of the Christian religion in Egyptian documents.' (Papyros Dodgson). (on file) (says Petosiris = form of Peter); Examples of Christian writing: Greek: "Pa nuter šerau pater-a pater m-pe pa nuter aa." - Transl.: 1) "The youthful god, my father, father in heaven, the great god."; 2) "O divine faithful Lord, I cast out Adam."; Comment: `I cast out Adam' here means the old Adam, our old nature as the Apostle Paul writes so often.; Pinches, (B) `Contract tablet from Babylon, inscribed with unknown characters.'; On the names of Shem and Japhet.; Some new Himyaritic inscriptions.; Ostraka of Hadrian, the Antonines, and their successors. - Trajan and Severus, ; Researches in the Moeris Basin.;

PSBA Vol. VI
Nov 1883, Society events and bits of news.; Remarks on the well known Shapira MS., The forger had removed nearly all vavs and yods which serve as matreslectionis, in order to bring his manuscript in harmony with ancient Phoenician scriptures. But he forgot to be consistent. For example, `Sihon' was written with a yod after the samech. The interpolations were suggested by the Samaritan system of garbling the text of the Pentateuch. The forger introduced new benedictions by inserting phrases which read like bad Hebrew, bad logic, and in all instances bad faith.;// Reading by Budge in `Creation Series', fight of Marduk and Tiamat.; Reading by Pinches of Rassam's discoveries at Abu-habbah, or Sepharvaim, including an egg shaped veined marble reading, "I, Sargon the king, king of Agade, I have dedicated [this] to Samas in Sippara.", p. 12.; Sayce, On the reading of cuneiform tablets from Kappadokia dealing with weights, etc.; On the Samaritan Tablet judged to be very similar to one decribed in 1845 in the `Halle Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung', 1845, no. 231, p. 658. It contains the decalogue in abbreviated form (5-10 commandment plus "And tou shalt built there and altar unto Jehovah they God." Dt. 27:5-8 and 33:4.) which was probably set up in a Samaritan synagogue.;
Dec 1883, Rassam read a paper on `Biblical Nationalities Past and Present.': ... "It was pointed out that the only one mentioned in the OT which has up to the present time retained their nation and power was the Persians; and that the only tribal or national name that had been kept was the Jew; all others had been brought under the common sway of the Turk, known in history by the name of Tartars or Sythians. Mr. Rassam stated that more than 9/10 of the population of Turkey and Persia are a muxture of Christians, Jews, and non-descript sects, not having any very exact idea of their own belief. These latter were the Guebres or ancient Parsees, Sabians who are Yesidis, or devil-worshippers, and Shabbaks, none of which retained any of the old idol worship. ... The condition of the people and country in ancient times having been disposed of, Mr. Rassam gave an account of the religions and sects at the present time inhabiting Mesopotamia, particularly the Christian community. These, it was stated, were divided into 4 different sects, having, it was considered, the same Chaldean or Assyrian origin, but who are now styled Chaldeans, Nestorians, Chaldean Catholics, Syrian Jacobites, and Syrian Catholics.; Oppert countering Pinches criticism by making phililogical points with respect to the `Slave inscription.'; Pinches reply to Oppert.; Birche's remarks on hypocephalus.;
Jan 1884, Passing away of Francois Lenormant.; Secretaties reports.; Notes on the surdu-bird, falcon, used for hunting.; Papers on Assyrian grammar (on file).; Ryland's careful drawing of the inscription of Sargon of Akkad in the BM. (on file);
Feb 1884, The Babylonian origin of the Phoenician alphabet.; Papers in French.; Egyptian grammar.; Pinches on the `left hand on the sale of a slave'.;
Mar 1884, Letter against useless polemics.; Papers in French.; Papers on the hydrocephalus.; On the exact copy of the `Aleppo Inscription' by General S.W. Crawford.;
Apr 1884, Chotzner's, `On the life and social position of Hebrew women in Biblical Times.; Pinches and Budge on, `On an edict of Nebuchadnezzar I (about 1150 BC)'. (lenghty); Hydrocephalus again.;
May 1884, Pinches & Budge on, Some new texts in Babylonian characters, relating principally to the restoration of temples.; The Babylonian kings of the 2nd period to the end of their existence of the kingdom.; Wiedemann, On some Greek ostraca found at Elephantine.; Sayce, New Cypriote inscriptions from Abydos and Thebes.; Criticism of Dr. Taylor's paper/ book on the Babylonian origin of the Phoenician alphabet.;
Dec 1884, Numerous communications.; some on hieroglyphic inscriptions.

PSBA Vol. XXXIV
Jan 1912, The reign of Rim-Sin and the conquest of Isin, The Aramaic ostracon from Elephantine and the Festival of Passover, Note on the Mananâ - Iapium Dynasty at Kish, Notes on Ezekiel 29:19 and Baal-Khamman, The Canaanite Alphabet, Notes on some Egyptian antiquities;
Feb 1912, The reign of Rim-Sin and the conquest of Isin (contin.), A new date from the kingdom of Khana, As Assyrian solar eclipse, (Ahuni's capital of) Til-Barsip (village of Tel Ahmar, Euphrates by Carchemish?) and its cuneiform inscriptions**, A tablet of prayers from the Nippur library. [** Til-Barsip was later called `Kar-Šulmanu-ašarid' by Shalmaneser II.]
Mar 1912, Babylon from the recent excavations, The reign of Amenhetep II: A criticism of a theory, Contracts from Larsa, Weight standards from Palestine.
May 1912, The lion-headed god of the Mithraic mysteries (on file), A not on the reign of Amenhetep II, The bird at temple `Z' at Babylon, Notes on the funeral statuettes of the ancient Egyptians, commonly called Ushabti figures, The originals of 2 religious texts of the Ašurbanipal library, A cylinder seal of the Hammurabi period.
Jun 1912, Babylonian chronology, A coptic marriage contract, Note on Egyptian sepulchral figures, Hebraeo-Aegyptiaca, The spirits of the departed among the Etruscans, A Greek ostracon, The prehistoric cemetery at Shamiram - alti near Van in Armenia, The passover ostracon from Elephantine, Notes on some Egyptian antiquities.
Nov 1912, The solution of the Hittite problem (i), On some place-names in eastern Lybia, Som lunar eclipses (cont), The ushabti figures, astronomy and the early Sumerian calendar.
Dec 1912, The solution of the Hittite problem (ii & iii), The origin of animal symbolism in Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia, The wooden and ivory labels of the first Dynasty, King Demd-ab-taui Uatjkara, The Babylonian month names of the 5th series, A Coptic marriage contract, Notes on some Egyptian monuments, Hebraeo-Aegyptiaca.

PSBA Vol. XXXV
Jan 1913, The Solution of the Hittite Problem, The Sumerians of Lagas, The Stele of the 18th or 19th Dyn with a Hymn to Ptah and Sekhmet, A Neo-Babylonian Astronomical Treatise in the British Museum, and its Bearing on the Age of Babylonian Astronomy, A Tablet from Umma in the Ashmolean Museum.;
Feb 1913, Notes on the Hittite Inscriptions and Mythology: The Rock Sculptures of Boghaz Keui, Yuia The Syrian, See here; Studies of some Rock Sculptures and Inscriptions of Western Asia (Judi Dagh), A Demotic Ostracon, New Light on Sequence Dating, Demotic Tax Receipts, Notes on the Carnarvon Tablet No. 1, The Early Sumerian Month-Names, Notes on the Stele of Sekhmet-Mere;
May 1913, Some Greek Monasteries, Demotic Tax-Receipts, Eridu-Babylon, Unuk and Uruk, Kibegi-Kingi, Egyptian Historical Notes, A Sumerian Word in the Bible (Isparu-weaver, usparu-trade, Prov. 31:19 "distaf");
Jun 1913, In Praise of Death (Egyptian), Eastern and Western Semitic Personal Names, Demotix Tax-Receipts, The Sooth Sayers of the OT, The Sumerian Vase, Concerning the use of the word Ullanu in Assyrian, Notes on some Egyptian Antiquities;
Nov 1913, Hittite Hieroglyphs on a Cappadocian Cuneiform Tablet in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Some Amorite Personal Names in Gen. 14, Demotic Tax-Receipts, An unusual Sketch of a Theban Funeral, The Scope and Methods of a History of Assyrio-Babylonian Law, Supplementary Note on the Equivalent of Hammurapi and Amraphel;
Dec. 1913, The Attys-Priest among the Hittites, Notes on the Egyptian Monuments, Demotic Tax Receipts, Notes on the Story of the Eloquent Peasant, Lexigraphical Notes, The Tomb of Senmen, brother of Senmut;
Nov 1914, Geographical notes on the Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions; An (cuneiform) omen text dealing with houses; Notes on some Eg. antiquities: "A bronze model of an axe, inscribed `Ra-men-kheper, beloved of Min in Koptos'. This is a foundation deposit from the great temple of Min at Koptos, which was restored by Thutmose III., a similar foundation deposit axe of this king was found before." p. 251, Plate XVI, #79.; An account of the pre-semitic version of the fall of man;
Dec 1914, Chinese and Sumerian; Two bronze talismans; A scarab and a leaden (540 gram) sling bolt from Samaria, On one end is the thunder bolt of Zeus, on the other the trident emblem of Poseidon., p. 278.; A seal of Nidaba, the goddess of vegetation.; Egyptian royal accessions during the Old Kingdom.;
Jan 1915, The Inscriptions of Carchemish, Foundation-Inscriptions from the Royal Palace at Erech., Chinese and Sumerian, Egyptian Royal Accessions During the Old Kingdom.;
Feb 1915, Fresh Light on the History of Esarhaddon, Chinese and Sumerian, Babylonian Measures of Length, A Fragment of a Liturgy to Ninib (Ninurasha).;
Mar 1915, Chinese and Sumerian, Notes on the Deification of Kings and Ancestor-Worship in Babylonia, Samaritan Phylacteries and Amulets.;
May 1915, Further Notes on Tablet K45 & 198., The Egyptian Word for Dragoman, Notes on the Deification of Kings and Ancestor-Worship in Babylonia, Samarian Phylacteries and Amulets, Notes on some Egyptian Antiquities.;
Jun 1915, The Lion-Headed God of the Mithraic Mysteries, Samarian Phylacteries and Amulets, The Personal Names Abram and Abraham.;
Nov 1915, Two Early Babylonian Historical Legends (BM K2546, K4445), Semitic Traces in Marmarica, Hebraeo-Aegyptica, The Assyrian and Hebrew Words for `Beard of the ear of the corn'', Another Aramaic Papyrus of the Ptolemaic Period.;
Dec 1915, Adam and Sargon in the Land of the Hittites a new Tel-Amarna Discovery, The Meaning of selected Hieroglyphic Signs, Some Egyptian Personifications.;

Biblical Archaeology
BA Biblical Archaeologist 56 (1993) : 110-115. Blegen, Carl. ... Jacobsen, Thorkild, and John A. Wilson. The Oriental Institute: Thirty Years and the Present.
BA 1957, unknown volume. Contains info on the work of archaeologists at the site of Jericho; from 1868 work done by one named Warren whose work was resumed by two German workers, Ernst Sellin (1867-1935) and Carl Watzinger (1877-1948), in 1907. The reports of this work which appeared in 1913, told (a) of the finding of a series of walls around the summit of the mound which showed evidence of having been destroyed by an earthquake.; (b) Kenyon's investigation: pottery associated with those fallen walls were said to not belong to the LB age but to the end of EB. (c) they said that earlier remains must have washed down by rain, W-BA, p. 79; C-EP, Vol. I, p. 67-69, & Sources, p. 76.; (d) the difference in morality between the Canaanites and the Hebrews is discussed, "The sexual emphasis of Canaanite religion was certainly extreme and at its worst could only have appealed to the baser aspects of man. Religion as commonly practiced in Canaan, therefore, must have been a rather sordid and degrading business, when judged by our standards. And so, it seems, it appeared to religious circles of Israel." [W-BA, p. 112; C-EP, Vol. I, p. 106] (e) Wright theorized that the original city at Pi-Rameses "was probably destroyed by Ahmose at the time when the Hyksos were driven out of Egypt." [W-BA, p. 60; C-EP, p. 118]
BA Vol. XXI.
Athens, City of Idol Worship by Oscar Broneer.;
May 1958, The 3rd season of excavation at Hazor, 1957, subtitle - Alalakh and the temple of Solomon (See color images of Solomon's Jerusalem; In one of the issues of 1958 appeared this author's articles, Adolf Erman, "Eine ägyptische Quelle der "Sprüche Salomos"," Sitzungsberichte der ... and Aram Naharaim," Biblical Archaeologist 21 (1958), 96-102. A. Erman wrote, `Life in Ancient Egypt.' He was the teacher (in Berlin) of Reisner and Breastedt, worked together with Barry Kemp.
Sep 1958, The Mosaic Map of Madeba/Madaba, The 1968 campaign at Beth-zur.;
Dec 1958, The Sounding at Pella, The Kingdom of David & Solomon in its Contact with Egypt and Aram Naharaim by A. Malamat, A Solomonic City Gate at Gezer.;
Feb 1959, The 4th season of excavation at Hazor - Images: shows LBA (conv. 1550-1250) gate, huge revetment wall of MBA (18th-17th period), 2 proto-Aeolic (or Ionic) capitals originally from Ahab's citadel (9th cent.), Main entrance to Ahab's citadel, Ax head glued by debris to a metal male deity figure, Aerial view of Solomon's Gate.;
BA Vol. XXII
May 1959, (BA) A bronze weight in a reclined cow from Ras-Shamra bearing the symbol "20" and weighing 468.5 grams. The unit, 23.42 grams, is double the Palestinian shekel., The Nabatean Bitumen Industry at the Dead Sea, The Bodmer Papyri from Upper Egypt, Bodmer II from ca. 200 AD. of John 1:1-14:26 edited by Victor Martin, 1956. Bodmer III in Coptic dialect called Bohairic, contains the gospel of John (good preserved from ch. 4:20) and Genesis 1:1-4:2, edited by Rodolphe Kasser., a different hand wrote one page containing John 7:53-8:11.; Bodmer V contains 56 composite, square pages of remarkable, preservation containing an account of the Nativity of Mary (not really gospel material).;
Sep 1959, (BA) Anthropoid coffins from Beth-Shan and Mercenaries, referred to by author as Philistine because of the hair style as found at Medinet Habu which shows really Persians., Samaria; The Negev, The Achievement of Nelson Glueck;
BA Vol. XXIII
Feb 1960, The Poola at Gibeon, The Amarna Letters and Period (erroneously related to the conquest), Yanhamu, Lab'ayu; Industry and Trade at Biblical Gibeon, Petra,;
May 1960, Statue of Shalmaneser III from Nimrud, From Qarqar to Carchemish, The Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon, New Light on Solomon's Megiddo.;
Sep 1960, The frankincense tree, Boswellia carteri, of the plain of Dhofar, A myrrh tree, Balsamodendrum Myrrh, from SW of Nisab.; Ancient Biblical Traditions and Modern Archaeological Discoveries.;
Dec 1960, (BA) The temple at Shechem, The Architectural Recording of the Shechem Excavation.;
BA Vol. XXIV
Feb 1961, (BA) The Coptic `Gospel of Truth'; The 2nd cent. AD Cairo Gospel of Philip., the Coptic version in a 4th cent. document; Reconstructing Archaeological remains.;
May 1961, New Discoveries in the Judean Desert, The Link Expedition to Israel, More on King Solomon's Mines.;
Sep 1961, The statue of Yarah'azar, The Material Civilization of the Ammonites, More on the Letters of Bar Kochba.;
Dec 1961, Roman Age Ramat Rahel, Tassled Garments in the Eastern Med.;
BA Vol. XXXV.
Feb 1970, (BA) Image of a Jewish Ossuary from Jerusalem, Secondary Burials in Palestine, Megiddo of the Kings of Israel;
Dec 1970, Geological Studies in Field Archaeology (Gezer);
May 1971, Hygiene Conditions in Ancient Iron Age Israel, News and Publications, Mari, The Ghassulian Temple in Ein Gedi and the origin of the Hoard from Nahal Mishmar;
Feb 1972, Eric Meyers, The Mausoleum at Khirbet Shema, venerated as the tomb of the Jewish sage Shammai since the Middle Ages, just SE of Meiron and less than 10 km south of Safad in Upper Galilee. Artifacts from the synagogue included a clay impression of a five branched Menorah and an oval carnelian gem showing a helmeted female figure.;
May 1972, (BA) Above ground view of Byblos, Standing stones in ancient Palestine;
Sep 1972, A. Hayimi, Prof. Malamat, Dr. J. Kaplan, Mr. & Mrs. Albright, Y. Aviram, before the Jaffa Museum., The Archaeology and History of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, shows a good drawing of a lion's skull found on a floor of an Iron I temple of the Jaffa excavation, p. 84.;
Dec 1972, The practice of writing in ancient Israel, Excavations at Tel Beer-sheba, Indices to BA Volumes XXXI-XXXV.;
Feb 1973, Albright's view of Archaeology by F. Cross, From the Patriarchs to Moses by Albright, Colossus, Colossae, Colossi: Confusio Colossaea, Biblical Index to Vol. XXXI-XXXV.;
May 1973, (BA) The Philistine Temple at Tell Qasile, Albright's, `From the Patriarchs to Moses - II. Moses out of Egypt'.;
Sep 1973, King Solomon's Palaces by David Ussishkin.;
Dec 1973, The Dead Sea Scrolls by James A. Sanders.;
Jun 1978. (BA) Statue of the Apostle Paul next to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Tarragona, Spain. Contains a map of the seven hills of Rome.
Sep 1978, Lloyd R. Bailey, G. Ernest and Emily Wright (1938).
Dec. 1978, David Noel Freedman, Valerie M. Fargo, Kevin G. O'Connell, Giovanni Pettinato, Paolo Matthiae, Larry Toombs, Ken Eakins, Jim Gullett.
Spring 1979, Bezalel Porten, Amnon Ben-Tor, Joseph A. Callaway, Nahman Avigad.
Summer 1979, Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, George Cameron, James Charlesworth, Yigal Shiloh.
Fall 1979, (BA)Mohammad Ali and his mother Umm Ahmad with Jabal al-Tarif in background, James Brashler, Zaki Basta, Bahij Ali, M.A. Mansoor antiquity shop, Phocion J. Tano, Cypriote antiquity dealer of Cairo, Raghib Andarawus, James M. Robinson, Labib Habachi, Abd al-Sayyid, Hilmi Sayun Gaddis, Gilles Quispet, Henri-Charles Puech, Pahor Labib, Gilles Quispel, Victor Girgis, Martin Krause, Charles W. Hedrick, James Brashler, Frederik Wisse, Douglas M. Parrott, Bentley Layton, John Sieber, Hans Martin Schenke.
Winter 1979, (BA) Robert R. Wilson, H. Jacob Katzenstein, Edward F. Campbell, J. Maxwell Miller, Bert De Vries, David W. McCreery, Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, Rabbi Sy Gitin, W.F. Albright, James Leon Kelso. See Greek ship.
Spring 1980, Robert Biggs, Dr. J. Kenneth Eakins, Eric M. Meyers, Virginia Bortin.
Summer 1980, James M. Fennelly, Andrew S. Ackerman, Avraham Biran, Matthew W. Stolper, George G. Cameron.
Fall 1980, Giovanni Pettinato, Robert T. Anderson, Pauline Albenda, Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943-2006; Sadly she wrote on the religion of Israel as a non-believer in a real God derived from an evolutionistic world view.), Rachel Hachlili, Richard E. Friedman, John R. Mott.
Winter 1980, (BA) W. H. Stiebing, Joseph Naveh, Ja,es H. Charlesworth, Moshe Dothan, Dever, Burton MacDonald.
Spring 1981, Moshe Kochavi, Wilemm C. van Hattem, Asher F. Kaufman, Marvin M. Pope.
Summer 1981, Avraham Biran, Alfonso Archi, Carole R. Fontaine, Yigal Shiloh, L.Y. Rahmani.
Fall 1981, (BA) Ronald A. Veenker, John H. Walton, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Victor H. Matthews, William H. Shea, James F. Strange, Carol L. Meyers.
Winter 1981, Menashe Har-El, Bruce E. Schein, James R. Kautz, Bezalel Porten, Gershon Edelstein, Mordechai Kislev, Otto Meinardus. Members and or participants in the Symposium for Biblical Studies in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 5-7, 1979, included 14 scholars: 1) D.N. Freedman, 2) J.V. Kinnier Wilson, 3) Werner H. Schmidt, 4) Masao Sekine, 5) R.N. Whybray, 6) Kiyoshi K. Sacon, Dennis J. McCarthy, 7) J.J.M. Roberts, 8) Tryggve N.D. Mettinger, 9) Miriam Tadmor, 10) Tomoo Ishida, 11) Abraham Malamar, 12) Herbert Donner, 13) Yutaka Ikeda, 14) Hayim Tadmor, 15) J.Alberto Soggin and 16) William G. Dever.
Spring 1982, James A. Sauer, James F. Strange, Larry E. Toombs, David Ussishkin, H. Darrell Lance, William G. Dever, L.Y. Rahmani, Edward F. Campbell.
Summer 1982, (BA) Alan R. Millard, Pierre Bordreuil, Eliezer D. Oren, Amihai Mazar, Albert Zuidhof.
Fall 1982, James A. Sauer, J. Maxwell Miller, Anson F. Rainey, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ivan T. Kaufman, Rudolph Cohen.
Winter 1982, (BA) Ofer Bar-Yosef, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, Zeev Meshel, Avraham Negev, Michael E. Stone, Carol L. Meyers, L.Y. Rahmani, David J. Graf, Davis Glenn Rose.
June 1983, Norman Golb, Richard Simon Hanson, John C. Trevor, Leonard Greenspoon, Henryk Minc, Max Leopold Margolis, John Locke (1698 Portrait).
Winter 1983, (BA) Shows a B&W image of the `Dome of the Rock' in the late 1920/early 1930's and the ruins of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek. Shows a drawn image of the Assyriologist George Smith (1840-1876). Shaun Casey, Hemnut Koester, Oskar Broneer, Richard Buckner.
Spring 1983, Pauline Albenda, Edwin Yumauchi, Denise Schmandt-Bessetat, Lawrence D. Sporty, Robert G. Boling, Martin Wilcox, Shows the head of a copper statuette of Ur-Nammu and his stele art work, the goddess Ningal, cuneiform tablets, Robert Pfeiffer, Ernest Wright, Michael Payne.
Summer 1983, Robert Houston Smith, James F. Strange, Martha Morrison, Rachel Hachlili, Ann Killebrew, Robert Houston Smith, Malamat.
Dec. 1983, (BA) Vasillios Tzaferis (`New Archaeological Evidence on Capernaum'), Michael E. Stone, Harry M. Orlinsky, James R. Mueller, Amos Kloner, Larry G. Herr (`The Amman Airport structure' - an ancient out of the way a site for human sacrifices?), Philip J. King, D. Moody Smith, Robert M. Little, Lawrence T. Geraty.
Mar 1984, Paolo Matthiae, A.T. Kraabel, Joe D. Seger, `The Location of Ziklag.' mentions Tel Sera or Halif; Robert T. Anderson, `Museum Trail, Shows a page of a 4th century Samaritan theological work by Memar Markah, made in 1750. A note at the back claims that the book was read by the governor of Syria, Ibrahim Paasha, in the early 19th century.; Lorenzo Vigano (`The Ebla tablets', TM 75.G.1321 and TM 75.G.1713), J.N. Graham, Page A. Thomas, James D. Muhly, Robert A.S. MacAlister (1870-1950) Irish archaeologist, excavator of Gezer; G.E. Wright, Eric E. Meyers, G. Ernest Wright. - Shown is the seal impression of a son of (Ammorite) king Inilimgur (Lord of the Goats fame).
June 1984, (BA) `The Legacy of Mari'; Jonathan T. Glass, Jack M. Sasson, Thoughts on Zimri-Lim, p. 110-120.; Marie-Henriette Gates (`The Palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari'), Judah Goldin.; Eerdmans authors: Richard J. Neuhaus, F.F. Bruce, Allen Verhey, Ralph P. Martin, Max L. Stackhouse, Georges Dossin (1896-1983).
Sept 1984, Ygael Yadin, Robert R. Stieglitz, Philipe G. Courture, Mervyn D. Fowler, Jerome Murphy O'Connor, Marie Henrietta Gates, she writes about the Roman city of `Dura-Europos' located just north of Mari on the banks of the Euphrates, includes an aerial view and a map of the town; Kenneth G. Hoglund, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson.
Mar. 1985, (BA) Lawrence T. Geraty, Rudolph H. Dornemann, Harvey Weiss, Hormuzd Rassam (drawing). Article of Jean Bottero, `The Cuisine of ancient Mesopotamia', Images: Ashurbanipal's feast celebrating victory over Elamites, the royal kitchen, recipes, Yale Babylonian tablet #8958, dog hunting expedition & prisoners eating a simple meal; From Sargon II palace at Khorsabad, Bow and arrow bird hunting, p. 36-47.;
June 1985, Norman Golb, Leonard Greenspoon, Richard Simon Hansen, John C. Trevor, Henryk Mine (mathematician, Univ. Santa Barbara); John Locke (1632-1704), Hebrew studies, later medicin, lived in France from 1675-1678, in Holland from 1683-1689.; Correspondet with Nicolas Toinard or Thoynard (1628-???), scholar & antiquarian, expert numismatist;
Sep 1985 (BA), Iris Elda, Y. Baumgarten, `Neve Noy (near Beersheba) - Chalcolithic site'; Ellen R. Williams, Suzanne Heim, `Ebla to Damascus'; V. Matthews, Dan Barag, `On a coin of Johanan'; James Moyer, Larry Herr, `Servant of Baalis', on Ammonite seal from Tell el-Umeiri. Contains for the 1st time divinity name of `Milkom'; John W. Betlyon, `Numismatics & Archaeology', {Contains images of coins of Valentinian I (364-367 AD, Tyre didrachm (ca. 352/351 BC), King Abd astart I of Sidon (ca. 362/361 BC), Severus Alexander sestertius (229 AD)}; Gillian Webster, Randall W. Younker, `on Baalis seal', contains info on the Kilamu orthostat which mentions the dynasty of Samal; info on the tomb stele of Ordek-burnu, 12 km south of Zinjirli; info on lunar deities.; J. Zias, E. Sekeles; Contains many color images of Israeli landscapes;
Dec 1985, Birgil Pixner, ` searching for the NT Site of Bethsaida',; The article discusses with good images and drawings: (1) et-Tell, Bethsaida-Julias, (2) Aradj, Bethsaida in Galilee, (3) Messadiye. Bethsaida was located at the north end of the Sea of Galilee were anciently the Jordan entered the lake, forming a small estuary and flood lands. Bathsaida was the location of the healing of the blind man, Mark 8:22-25.; Victor Matthews, Mary Wright, James C. Moyer.
Mar. 1986, John D. Currid, Shelly Wachsmann, Barbara Geller Nathanson, Pierre Bordreuil, Robert S. Merrillees `Political Conditions (Hittites) in LB'; believed in old idea of peoples infiltrating, ala Hittites, Mitannians.; Eric Meyers, marble head of Constantine the Great & Julian the Apostate(?).
Jun 1986, (BA) Marvin H. Pope, `Exploring Exodus - Oppression', `Snagging of the Ram'; Victor H. Matthews, `The wells of Gerar'; Nahum M. Sarna, Thomas E. Levy (Chalcolithic Period), The McGoverns, `Paul Emile Botta - naturalist' - digging up Niniveh; Paul Emile Botta.
Sept. 1986, Donald P. Ryan, Michael Wise, John K. McDonald, Keith W. Whitelam `articel on Hazor/ Khirbet el Marjameh' an Israelite fortified town in the eastern slopes of the Ephraimite hill country.; Melvin K.H. Peters, Joseph Zias, Lloyd R, Bailey, Giovanni Bautista Belzoni.; Contains a page of Genesis 3 from the `Complutensian Polyglot' on page 177.; Contains the image of the Byzantine empress Eudocia (5th cent. AD), patron for many buildings in Palestine, drawn from a coin. She is said to have been instrumental in establishing a lepresarium, p. 183.; Shows image of the Latin `Pilate Inscription' (82 X 65 cm) reading, ". . . TIBERIEUM/ . . . [PO]NTIUS PILATUS/ . . . [PRAEF]ECTUS IUDA[EA]E," p, 162.
Dec. 1986 I, (BA) Yigal Shiloh, David Tarler, Oded Borovski, Jo Ann Hackett, Michael Wise `The Dead Sea Scrolls', pt. 2, shows and mentions the damaged `Discipline Scroll', p. 230f. Also shows the Pesharim and Targumim (an Aramaic transl. or paraphr. of Bible portions) texts; Has Glossary on: hagaddah, halakah, merkavah, payyetamine, pesher, targum; Gus W. Van Beek, Cornelius H. de Geus, Henry Thompson. - See the drawing of the city of Astoreth as depicted on the city gate of Nimrud (8th cent.) with its revetment wall and bastions by Linda Huff, p. 225. See next entry for more on the December 1986 Issue.
Dec 1986 II, Yigal Shiloh, David Tarler, Oded Borowski, Jo Ann Hackett, Cornelis de Geus, Henry O. Thompson, Michael Wise, Gus W. van Beek; Article on the Deir Alla text (Balaam); Image of the `Manual of Discipline'; Image of the inside of a phylactery (p. 234); Gloassry of apogrypha, haggadah, halakah, merkavah, payyetanim, pesher, pseudoepigrapha and targum, p. 236.; Bullae from the City of David.; An inscription from Hurmat Gommer reading, "I am Elazar, son of Aba Mari; I made this burial place for Aba Mari son of Bata; fear of oath (on whoever breaks in) .", p. 213.; Article by Jo Ann Hackett, Some Observations on the Balaam Tradition at Deir Alla,', p. 216-222. Inscription shows how it was adopted to pagan, multi-gods ideas.; Article on the profile of an Israelite city (Astoreth in Gilead) as represented on an Assyrian relief at Nimrud, see p. 225. The relief shows a city on a Tell with bastions and what is called to be a gate.; Article on the Dead Sea Scrolls by Michael Wise - the `Discipline Scroll' and the `Copper Scroll' .; Gus Van Beek, `Are there Beehive Granaries at Tell Jemmeh?', p. 245. Shows B&W image of the overall setting of a granary found and photographed by Petrie (1928), Plate XIII.;
Mar. 1987, Carol L. Meyers, Suzanne Richard, K.A. Matthews, Max Miller, Carney E.S. Gavin, G. Ernest Wright (1934 & 1944), Selman Suleiman, village mukhtat (1957), Lawrence E. Tombs, ruins of the church at Emmaus visited by W.F. Albright and W.F. Steinespring (1934), Samuel Noah Kramer (Sumerologist), the 19th century Edward Robinson, Sir Charles W. Wilson & Sir Flinders Petrie.
June 1987, (BA) Gloria Ann London, `Burials at Jebel Qaaqir near the Herodium'; Bryant G. Wood, Volkmar Fritz, Avner Ruban, Shows detailed map and art work of Tel Dor; mis-identifies the Sea-peoples as Philistines, p. 118-126.; Yigal Ronen, Henry O. Thompson, Issac Gilead;
Sept 1987, William G. Dever (`The Middle Bronze Age'/Shechem; shows `High Place'/10 standing stones/ at Gezer; shows views of Shechem and Gezer's walls), Henri Limet, David C. Hopkins (`Life on the Land', shows B&W image of Khirbet Sasa, east of Hazor; also shows surroundings of Shiloh.); Shows images of Ur-Nammu.
Mar 1988, (BA) Ann Killebrew, Zvi Uri Maoz, `Ancient Qasrin' synagogue; Valerie Abrahmsen, O. Borowski, `ID of Tel Halif'; Jeffrey Zorn, `The Bade Institute' (mentions seal of Jaazaniah, Images: EB pottery of Nasbeh, arrowheads, Oxyrhychus papyrus, 1611 KJV 2.Ki. 25); Wm.F. Bade, Clarence S. Fisher, Elihu Grant, Labib Effendi Sorial, D. Harel artwork, George P. Hedley (Tell en Nasbeh excavations); V. Abrahamson, `Christianity & rock reliefs at Philippi'. Philippi is famous for the defeat of Brutus and Casius by Antony and Octavian (the later Augustus) (42 BC), Discusses pagan reliefs (Diana {some 40 carvings on the acropolis hill with images, from time after apostles}, Sylvanus).
Sep. 1988, Donald P. Ryan, `Papyrus' with images; Mary Wright, `Contacts between Egypt & Syro Palestine in Old Kingdom', Shows statue of Mycerinus, alabaster offering plate, damaged battle scene in tombs of Inti and Kaiemhesit; Jack P. Lewis `On Barclay', James Turner Barclay.; Scott Layton, `Old Aramaic Inscriptions', on Zakkur, Aramean BarRakib, Stele of Sinzerbani, priest of Sahar at Nadeb found at Nerab, 7 km southeast of Aleppo.; Shows Aramaic inscription on ivory from Arslan Tah, reads "... son of Amma, for our lord Haza'el in the year..." connected to 2.Kings 8:7-15.;
Dec. 1988, Philip R. Davies, Paul Goldberg, Bert de Vries, Robert L. Wilken, Robert Schick, Michele Piccirillo; Issue shows many mosaics.
Mar 1989, (BA) Albert Leonard; Articles on `the Late Bronze Age' (bichrome ware), Image of Akhnaton with Nefertiti.; shows drawings of the sea wars of Ramses III.
Jun/Sep 1989, Ronal L. Gorny, Gregory McMahon, Gary Beckman `The Myth of Illuyanka (the storm god against the serpent illuyanka)', p. 104, Jeanny Vorys Canby, Ahmet Ünal.
Dec. 1989 (on Cyprus), Stuart Swiny, Charles U. Harris, Joan Breton Connelly, Patricia Maynor Bikai, Thams D. Davis, Demetrios Michaelides, Pamela Gaber, Gloria London, `Past & Present Village Potters of Cyprus'.
Mar. 1990, George F. Bass, Nicolle Hirschfeld, Claire Peachey, Douglas Haldane, Steve Vinson, Michael Fitzgerald.
Jun 1990, (BA) Yosef Garfinkel, `The Eliakim Naar Yokan Seal impressions'; Lawrence Schiffman, `The new Halakhic Letter & Origins of the Dead Sea Sect'; Norman H. Young, `Greek Paidagogues pottery'; Zvi Gal, `Khirbet Ros Zayit - Biblical Cabul'; Irving Ziderman, `Seashells and ancient purple dying'; James Moyer, Victor Matthews. Articles: `The new Halalkhic Letter (4QMMT) and the origins of the Dead Sea sect', (sidebar on Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes); Images: Tell Bit Mirsim at 1928; Maps: Khirbet Ros Zayit (biblical Cabul); Area of Naphthali, Zebulun and Issachar.; Contains a chart of the new chronology of the Iron Age, p. 91.
Sep. 1990, David C. Hopkins, Seymour Gittin, Uzi Avner, Naomi F. Goldsmith, Nahman Avigad (`The Inscribed Pomegranate from the House of the Lord', reading of "Sacred donations for the priests in the house of Yahweh" in paleo-Hebrew), Edwin Gould.; Images: The `Stele of Vultures' depicting the high priest Dudu of Lagash, mentions the king Enmetena vase.;
Dec. 1990, (BA) Large layout colorful cover image of the theater at Pergamum, Turkey (`Theaters in the Roman Empire'); Mary T. Boatwright, Larry Kreitzer, Lawrence D. Sporty, Gus and Ora Van Beek, James C. Moyer, Victor H. Matthews; The art of W.H. Bartlett.;
Mar. 1991, Barbara S. Lesko, Carol L. Meyers, Lawrence D. Sporty, Stephen A. Reed, Eric M. Meyers. This issue contains the image of a page of a Dead Sea Scroll, 4Q175 which has several quotations from Deuteronomy, Psalms and Joshua, and non-canonical portions on. p. 44. Also shown are images of the `Book of Mysteries', 1Q27, p. 47 and 4Q109, a small portion of Ecclesiastes.;
June 1991, (BA) Jaroslav Folda, Arlene Miller Rosen, Neil Asher Silberman, Barry J. Beitzel, Robert T. Anderson, Edward Robinson (biblical historical geography), Clarence Fisher, W.M.F. Petrie.;
Sep 1991, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, Bruce C. Cresson, `Horvat-Uza a Fortified Outpost on the Eastern Negev' (Period of Hezekiah?, Manasseh), p. 126-135; Plan drawings by Jane Sweeney., the most important findings were the ostraca: Ahiam Ostracon, "- to Ahiqam, son of m - m Amadyahu son of Zakkur, from Moladah Hoshayahu, son of Nawy, from rn/ptn. Machi, son of Hisilyahu, from Makkedah."; The `Edomite Ostracon' , "[Thus] said Lumalak (or E limelek): Say to Blbl! Are you well? I bless you by Qaus. And now give the food (grain) that Ahi'ma/o And may U(z)iel lift [it] upon (the altar?) ... [lest] the food become leavened(?)"; Joseph Zias, Lynn Tatum, `King Manasseh and the Royal Fortress ar Horvat Usa', A drawing show the `House of Ahiel' and the location of the `Bullah House', p. 136-137-145.; Benedict T. Viviano, `Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Francaise de Jérusalem', See images.; This article shows an image of the Madaba/Madeba Mosaic Map of Jerusalem the central street made of 1 meter flagstones which was finally discovered 4.5 meters below the existing street in February 2010.; Shows B&W image of the top of one of the double peaks of Mt. Berenice on the western edge of Tiberias, p. 171. Discusses Roman constructions.
Dec. 1991, A. John Gwinnett & Leonard Gorelick, `Bead manufacture'; Jodi Magness (`The Walls of Jerusalem in the Early Islamic Period'), Sean A. Kingsley, Kurt Raveh, Victor H. Matthews, James C. Moyer; James M. Robinson, `Handling future Manuscript discoveries.' (Good B&W image of bundled Nag Hammadi manuscripts and title page of the uncanonical book of Thomas.);
Mar 1992, (BA) Lawrence H. Schiffman, James A. Sanders, Shelby Brown, Brigette Treumann-Watkins.
June 1992, Stuart S. Miller, article on Sepphoris; A. Bernard Knapp, shows hieroglyphic inscribed base of Amenophis III statue; Eric M. Meyers. Page 79 shows a page of the manuscript Leiden of the Palestinian Talmud featuring tractate Tacanit (4,68d).
Sept. 1992, (BA) Glen L. Peterman, A. Bernard Knapp, Ellie Beach, James C. Moyer, Victor H. Matthews, Kenneth Wayne Russell.
Dec. 92, James A. Armstrong, Roger Matthews, David Stronach, Trevor Watkins, Paul Zimansky.; The Halaf Period in Iraq, p. 182-187.; Examples of a hypostyle house (a rectangular regular shape with two rows of 4 columns (total=8) on either site of the center line; and a second adjacent a little set back similar house under same roof.), p. 191, of 2 potteries of the so-called Ubaid 1 period (4500 BC), p. 189 and Ubaid 4, p. 194.; Shows images of proto-cuneiform tablets drawn "after" the educated guesses of a scholar if the characters were hard to distinguish, p. 199. That must mean, "knowing" the antiquity of these finds, they must look primitive. Shows drawing of a city seal impression made by a large cylinder.; Lagash: Shows a baked clay spindle whorl with five pointed star. A ruler of Sumerian Lagash was Eannatum.; Shows map of 7th cent. Niniveh and Sennacherib's sector. Niniveh's gate names starting at 1 o'clock are: (1) Halahhu, (2) Shibaniba, (3) Mushlalu, (4) Kar-Mulissi, (5) Shamash. (6) Halzi, (7) Ashur, (8) Handuri, (9) Arsenal, (10) Desert, (11) Quay, (12) Mashki, (13) Sin, (14) Nergal, (15) Adad Gate(s), p. 228.;
Mar 1993, (BA) Paul Haupt, W.F. Albright, M. G. Kyle, Cyrus Gordon, Nelson Glueck.
Jun 1993, Eleanor Ferris Beach, Timothy P. Harrison, Paula Wapnish, Brian Hess.
Sep 1993, Jeffrey A. Blakely, Frederick Jones Bliss, Joseph Naveh (Epigraphy & Palaeography).
Dec. 1993, Steven A. Rosen, David Hopkins, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson.
Mar 1994, Donald R. Vance, Wayne Pitard, Robert R. Stieglitz, Siegfried H. Horn.
Jun 1994, (BA) William A. Ward, Abraham Terian, Robert Harrison, Donald R. Vance.
Sep 1994, Yizhar Hirschfeld, Roni Ben Arieh, Shimon Gibson, David M. Jacobson, Yahuda Peleg, Günter Garbrecht, Kent Brown, Jeffrey Chadwick.
Dec 1994, Bert de Vries, Rudolph Cohen, Linda Bennet Elder.
Mar 1995, Joseph A. Callaway, E.B. Banning, Kathleen Kenyon, Gerald L. Mattingly, David Alon, Thomas E. Levy.
Jun 1995, (BA) Peter Neve, Jürgen Seeher, Mark Nesbitt, Robert C. Henrickson, Itamara Singer, Paul Zimansky, K. Aslihan Yener, Harry A. Hoffner.
Sep 1995, Jean-Claude Margueron, Hamido Hammade, Daniel E. Fleming, Oded Borowski, Jane D. Evans, John Younger.
Dec 1995, (BA) Manfred Bietak, John Van Seters, J.S. Haladay, Carol Redmount, Philip Arnold, William G. Dever, Gloria London, Rudolph Cohen, John Younger.
Mar 1996, Cyrus H. Gordon, James Allen Montgomery, Louis H. Feldman, Martha Morrison, Gary A. Rendsburg, David Toshio Tsumura, Edwin M Yamauchi, Greagory Bearman (NASA), Sheila I. Spiro.
Jun 96, Daniel C. Browning, Mark Chavalas, Alan Rowe, Pere Vincent, Garstang, Clarence Fisher, Lawrence Davidson, Ted Lewis, Yigal Ronen, James C. Moyer.
Sep 96, (BA) John Rogerson, Philip R. Davies, Richard S. Hess, Loeta Tyree.
Dec 96, Simon B. Parker, Nili Fox, M. Meyers, Ronald S. Hendel.
Mar 1997, Andrea M. Berlin.
Jun 1997, (BA) Amihai Mazar, Wayne Horowitz, Arie S. Isaar.
Sep 1997, Larry G. Herr.
Dec 97, Max Miller, J. Andrew Dearman, Gerald L. Mattingly, Michele Daviau, Udo F. Chr. Worschech, Randall W. Younker, Jim Sauer.

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BAR Jan/Feb 1982, Ellsworth Rosen, William Harris, Nachman Avigad, Theologians: Jacques Ellul (Univ. Bordeaux), Jürgen Moltmann (Univ. Tübingen), Hans Küng (U. Tübingen), Edward Schillebeeckx (Belgian Dominican), Geoffrey Wainwright (at Yaounde, Cameron; Queen's College, Birmingham; New York), James A. Carpenter (General Theol. Seminary), David A. Hubbard (Fuller Seminary), Martin E. Marty (Chicago Divinity School), David H.C. Read (Presbyterian Church N.Y.), Wayne E. Oates (Prof. of Psychiatry & Behav. Sc. Louisville), Krister Stendahl (Bishop of Stockholm, Dean of Divinity School Harvard); H.L. Willmington (Trinity Evang. Div, School, Deerfield).
Mar 1982, Abraham Malamat, Goldie Feinsilver, Yigael Yadin, Leroy Aarons.
May 1982, Robert J. Bull, Janet Crisler, Nancy Miller, Robert L. Hohlfelder, Yohanan Aharoni, Mitchell Dahood.
Jul 1982, Trude Dothan, Gershon Edelstein & S. Gibson, Ancient Jerusalem's Rural Food basket', p. 46-54. Images show gnarled olive trees of the Kidron Valley, terraced hills near Jerusalem, a round stone struktur at Nahal Rephaim, a farm at Nahal Gilo, capstone of a cistern, farms at Ein Yalu & Khirbet er-Ras, terraces and walls.; Norman K. Gottwald, Alan Crown. Shows the image of the late John Bright, `A History of Israel', p. 57.
Sep 1982. Leroy Aarons,Tikva Frymer-Kempsky, Elkan Nathan Adler (1861-1946), London lawyer and collector of Hebrew manuscripts & fragments no owned by the Jewish Theological Seminary of N.Y.; Thorkild Jacobsen, Solomon Schlechter, active end of 19th into 20th cent.; Dr. Stefan Reif,: Articles/Images: Full page color image of `The Uruk Vase'; `The Seal of Adda'; `Statue of Astarte' with some facial damage; anthropoid coffins; A Roman glass pitcher; Raphael Levy, article on `Dead Sea Scrolls', Shows, A leaf from the Book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus); A page of the Zadokite Document "B" (12th cent.) found in the Cairo Genizah, two pages were found. A page of a 12th cent. manuscript overlapping the Zodokite Document "A" (the 1st found Scroll at Qumran), both written in biblical Hebrew and judged to derive from before 70 AD; also known as the `Damascus Document'; 50 yrs later the `Manual of Discipline' was found at Qumran and also small fragments of the Zadokite Document itself in caves IV and VI.; Shows the so-called manuscript of Obadiah, a 12th cent. Norman proselyte. The manuscript contains musical notations.
Nov 1982, James D. Muhly, Dewey M. Beegle, Yehuda T. Radday, James F. Strange, (Sidebar on Odyssey); Article on the house were Jesus stayed in Peter's house at Capernaum.; Lachish Letter article by Rodney Wright, p. 72-73.
BAR Jan. 1983, James Fleming, Rachel Hachlili, Rivkah Harris, R. David Freedman, Ann Killebrew, Robert A. Wild; Bust of Queen Agrippina II of Rome; Articles: The Golden Gate Beneath Jerusalem, The Goliath family, The Chorazim synagogue.
Mar 1983, Asher S. Kaufman, Gabriel Barkay, Avraham Biran. Images of the rocks of the first temple, p. 48. Also (superimposed!!) temple maps and color images of the temple and other buildings itself.
May 1983, Ehud Netzer, `The Herodium', Article very detailed, shows many great color images: aerial view of the mount itself, drawn layout plans, the remains of the mtn. palace-fortress, images of a reconstructed model, the pool and pavilion, the course and lower palace, monumental building - lower Herodium; side bar articles: `Herod flees from the Parthians and defeats Antigonus at the place he would later call Herodium,' Joesphus Antiquities, XIV, 352-360.; `The Appearance of the Fortress and the City of Herodium,' Ibid., Sec. XV, 323-325.; `Herod's Funeral and Burial at Herodium,' Josephus Jewish Wars, Sec. I, 670-673.; `Herod - The Man and His Deeds' by Nahman Avigad, p. 50.
Lindley Vann, Jacob Milgrom, Antonia Frederick Futterer in the 1920's, Article: Searching for Herod's Tomb.; Shows sketch map of the Hill of the Skull, Damascus Rd, City Wall, p. 55.
Jul 1983, Rudolph Cohen, `The Mysterious MBI People', Image of Har Yeruham (Negev), Horval Nahal Nissana, Caves of Nahal Ahdir; Dever, `The sad case of Tell Gezer', Images of Standing stones, The Tell far view, Solomonic Gate.; Magen Broshi, Herold Weiss, `Gold Hoard of Capernaum'; Borowski, Archimandrite Kiriako (unearthing Ahab's Palace at Samaria), (a swordmaker's shop).; Color Images: full page image of Wadi Firan, Sinai); B&W Images: unearthing Ahabs palace, The great Sphinx, Climbing Machaerus.
Sept. 1983, Amihai Mazar, Peter C. Craigie, Joseph Callaway.
Statement accompanied by B&W images: "Evidence that Solomon built Biblical Megiddo's huge six-chambered gate. In this original excavation photo of one room of the gateway, taken in 1937, the chalk floor along the left wall laps up onto the lowest course of ashlars. This is clear evidence that the gate walls were constructed before the floor was laid. The scholars agree that this floor dates from the 10th century BC Solomonic city. If Ahab had built the wall in the 9th century BC, as Ussishkin proposes, we should see a clear disfuncture where the wall would have cut the earlier pavement. Fargo concludes that Solomon built the gate wall and then laid the pavement against it. Between the second and third courses in this picture we see another portion of the recessed earth and pebble layer shown."
"Beam recesses in the Megiddo gate" Israeli archaeologist David Ussishkin contends that the lowest courses of this wall, including the recess between the second and third courses, were the foundation of a gate built by King Ahab. Archaeologist Yigael Yadin believes that this wall is part of the gateway built by Solomon. Author Valerie Fargo agrees with Yadin and points to this photograph from the original excavation archive as evidence. Taken in 1936, this photo preserves the image of a recessed earth and pebble layer running between the second and third courses of the wall. This recess probably held decorative wooden beams. If Ussishkin were correct that the lowest courses were the foundation of a gate built by Ahab, these decorative wooden beams would not have been seen. However, the builders would not have built the wall with decorative wooden beams that could not be seen. Author Fargo argues that this use of decorative beams demonstrates that the first four courses were not foundation courses, but rather part of the exposed gate built by King Solomon in the 10th century." p. 10-12. - We always ought to consider what kind of chronology underlies pros and cons of such scholarly research. Conventional chronology will mostly result in empty periods devoid of real history. Written history disagrees in strategic points with today's theorists who base their conclusions largely on pottery and metal periods.; A large, from much use very worn grinding stone is shown on page 52, image #5; found on the surface at Raddana.
Nov 1983, Nahman Avigad, James F. Strange, James D. Muhly, James Fleming, Jean Perrot, Paolo Matthiae, Gabriella Scandone Matthiae, Alfonso Archi, Stefania Mazzoni Archi, R. Thomas Schaub, Menahem Mansoor, Kenneth G. Hollum, (contains Baalbek painting by David Roberts, dated May 7th, 1839, a Tuesday).; Articles: Capernaum; Maps; Image of traditional Tomb of Absalom;
BAR Jan 1984, Lawrence Stager, Samuel R. Wolff, Siegfried Horn; James Brashler, `Nag Hammadi Codices She New Light on Early Christian History'.; Andre Lemaire, P. Kyle McCarter, James Strange, James Muhly; Images: Full page ivory lotus bud with one broken off leaf kept for evidence, reading: "lby[t yhw]h qds khnm" (`Belonging to the tem[ple of the Lor]d [Yahweh], holy to the priests" or "Sacred donation for the priests of (in) the house of Yahwe]h".; A Punic gold coint of the 4th cent. BC.; Muhammed Ali & James M. Robinson, Charles Hedrick, W.F. Albright, Tel Miqne excavation image. - -Bruce Metzger sidebar article on `Manuscripts of the Greek Bible.' Showing a page of Mark 16:14 as compared to what it says on one page of the `Codex Washingtonianus,' p. 12 and a papyrus page of a 4th century AD fragmented text of Deuteronomy 31:28-30 and 32:1-7 containing the `Tetragrammaton,' p. 14.; Shows a carnelian seal similar to the one shown here but reading, "Eliyahu".; Shows ivory plaque with the Phoenician inscription containing `Tanit Ashtart,' p. 50. On Carthage burials and digs.; The Nag Hammadi Codices and Early Christian History, Shows papyrus lined cover of Codex VII, p. 55.; Tel Dan excavations with cult stand (throne), estimated 9th cent. BC.; Brief Exc-Reports on Tel Miqne, El-Umeiri, Qasile, Yinam, Yarmuth and Dor; on Shiloh, Ein Yael, City of David, Yoqneam and Horvatuza.;
Mar 1984, Robert A. Wild, David Ussihskin,`Stunning book on Lachish'; Borowski, `Yadin Interpretation of Lachish Letters'- Concludes: T. el Duweir is Lachish, says the Lachish sherds, discovered 1932-1938, 24 miles north of Beer-sheba, are drafts of letters yet to be written, not the actual letters themselves. Yadin says the Hebr. `shomerim' means "watching over", rather then "watching for." See 1.Sam. 26:15-16; 2.Sam. 11:16 where a similar phrase clearly means `watching over.'; Vassos Karageorghis, Bishop Anastasio Ballestrero, Yigael Yadin, Dr. Ralph Napolitano, Rebecca Knudeson, Walter E. Rast.
May 1984, Ahimai & Benjamin Mazar, Bill Clark, Joseph Shenhav (mosaic restorer); Images: Triple arch tomb entrance at Beth She'arim, Lower Galilee; Contains plea for owner of the famed Solomon's ivory pomegranate to reveal the whereabouts of the relic. Our question is, where was it found and where is that broken off petal? Can anyone match it to its broken base? Map: Shows a well made drawn map of Jerusalem's ancient water system. Locations shown include: Jerusalem. UN Headquarters, Ramat Rahel, Rachel's Tomb, Beit Jala, Bethlehem, Beit Sahur, Herodium, Solomon's Pools, Wadi Biyar Spring, Fureidis Spring, Arrub Spring, El-Dible Spring & Kuweiziba Spring, p. 48 - some images included.;
July 1984, Itzaq Beit-Arieh (Contains satelite image of the Sinai Peninsula, including Nuweiba Beach, as well as info on conventional Early Bronze Age Canaanites.), Bernard F. Batto, Neil Asher Silberman writes on Lady Hester L. Stanhope, Dr. Tetsunao Yamamori, Yigal Shiloh, Yosef Aviram, Yigael Yadin (Writes on a 4 link piece of iron chain from Lachish), Hershel Shanks, James A. Sauer, Suzanne Singer, Lawrence E. Stager, Joe D. Seger, Benjamin Mazar, Eric Meyers, Nahman Avigad, Jinas C. Greenfield, Pere Pierre Benoit.
Sept. 1984, Morton Smith, Morris Rodman, Nahman Avigad, Ephraim Stern, James H. Charlesworth, Helmuth Koester, Wayne A. Meeks, Raymond E. Brown, Peter Machinist, Charles F. Nims, Richard C. Steiner, Frank Moore Cross, Ygael Yadin. Shows a plan of the how the Essenes wanted to reconstruct the temple at Jerusalem, p. 43. Of interest is that the temple court, surrounded by the inner court, is not quite a rectangle made of two squares but if divided into two halfs, the center of each half would approximately be at the altar of burned offerings and the ark in the Most Holy. However, the temple complex plan puts the altar not in line with the entrance to the holy showing that the Essenes have a distorted understanding of the meaning of the temple arrangement and symbolism. [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
Nov 1984, Yizhar Hirschfeld (`Sumptuous Roman Baths near Sea of Galilee'), Giora Solar, Andre Lemaire, Lloyd Bailey, Dever, Avraham Biran, Stager, Wolff, Biran, Laughlin, Terry and Cathy Small; `Sacred trees in ancient art.;
BAR Jan. 1985, Vassilios Tzaferis, Adam Zertal, James F. Strange, Jacob Milgrom, David Noel Freedman.
Mar 1985, Varda Sussman, Ziony Zevit, Joseph A. Callaway, Robert Magruder, Margery Mitton, Teddy Kollek, John Strugnell (1930-2007), Jacob Neusner, Morton Smith, Borowski.
May 1985, Rudolph Cohen, Alan Millard, Nancy Miller, Rivka Gonen (temple mount and Machpelah may be MBA I cemetery sites); Image of the interior of a crusader church, now a mosque, the traditional site of the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Jun 1985, Norman Golb, `Who hid the Dead Sea Scrolls', shows maps of Dead Sea region and manuscripts; Richard Simon Hanson, `Ancient scribes & scripts and the clues they leave'; John C. Trevor, `The Book of Daniel'; Leonard Greenspoon, Henryk Minc, `Ancient Jewish Coins'; Max Leopold Margolis, Potrait of John Locke.
Jul 1985, Jean-Francoise Champollion, Emmanuel Anati, William H. Stiebing, Aviram Perovolotsky, Carey A. Moore, Lawrence Geraty, Israel Finkelstein.; Articles: The Exodus with many great images of the Sinai and Har Karkom but nothing on Nuweiba Beach;.
Sep 1985, Andre Lemaire, Howard W. Goodkind, `Egypt in America'; Lawrence Schiffman, Harry Orlinsky, Joseph Smith, Ben Zion Wacholder, John Strugnell.; Articles & Images: Fragments of the Book of Balaam; The 79 foot assumed 10th century A.D. El Castillo Pyramid of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan, Mexico an Zoser's Step Pyramid. Shows ivory carvings and the elephant of the Black Obelisk, p. 47.
Nov 1985, Osnat Misch-Brandl, Nitza Rosovsky, Jacob Neusner & Shaye J.D. Cohen, Write on the Mishnah ; Articles include `The City of David'; Image of traditional Mt. Sinai; .
BAR Jan 1986, Peter Cambell Craigie, Aharon Kempinski, Adam Zertal, Robert Holst. Image of the excavation volunteers tent campground at Shiqmim.
Mar 1986, James Fleming, Gabriel Barkey, Amos Kloner, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Moshe & Trude Dothan, Avrham Birat & Malamat, Yigal Shiloh, Ephraim Stern, Moshe Kochavi, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, Jacob Neusner, Conrad Schick (1822-1901), General Charles George Gordon; Contains images of the `Skull Hill of Golgatha' and the tomb, Pierre Benoit;
May 1986, Dr. Siegfried Horn, Marie-Henriette Gates, Yaakov Meshorer (numismatist), Dan Bahat, Richard Chute (Assay `End of EBA').
Jul 1986, Shows color image of a group of 7 clay anthropoid coffins, p. 8. Eugenia L. Nitowski (Shroud of Turin), Joseph A. Kohlbeck, Avraham Eitan (Shows ancient remains of `Vered Jericho,' p. 32,33), Rudolph Cohen (Shows map of fortresses of northern Negev and Iron Age sites. States 3 square fortresses of Horvat Mesora, H. Ritma & Atar Haro'a may be Persian.), I. Finkelstein, Saul & Gladys Weinberg, Moshe Pearlman, George W.A. Hanfman (excavator of Sardis), Joseph Shenhaw;
Sep 1986, A.Thomas Kraabel, Robert S. MacLennan, Louis H. Feldman, Robert F. Tannenbaum, Gary Pratico, Floyd S. Fierman, Helen, Frenkley, P. Kyle McCarter, Nelson Glueck, Zig Ziglar, Josh McDowell, Belzoni; Article on the `Dead Sea Scrolls'; Chronological graph, 175 BC - 95 AD; Images: Name of Pontius Pilate, Uzziah bones, place of trumpeting, p. 162; Septuagint pages and Ge 3 from the Complutensian Polyglot; Shows full page color image of a 4th cent. AD synagogue of Sardis, Ostia and Aphrodisias located between Ephesus and Laodicea.
Nov 1986, Meir Ben-Dov, Aaron Demsky, Baruch Margalit `Why Mesha sacrificed his son', Walter Harrelson, Jonas Greenfield, Paul Trinchard, Mary O'Shaughnessy, Leopold Fellner; Shows major images in `Excavating in the shadow of the temple mount'; features `Herod's Mighty Temple Mt'; .
BAR Jan 1987, David Ussishkin, William Sanford La Sor (Fuller Theo. Sem.), Helen Davis.; Articles: Lachish; Model of Jerusalem by Stephan Illes found again in the Palais Wilson in Geneva;
Mar 1987, Ze'ev Herzog, `Arad- An ancient Israelite fortress with a temple to Yahweh'; Yohanan & Miriam Aharoni, Anson F. Rainey, Ruth Amiran, Shulamit Eisenstadt, Gary Rollefson, Kathryn Walker Tubb, Tom Kraabel, Carl Holladay, Jesse Jackson, Kent Richards, J. Neusner, Samuel Noah Kramer.
May 1987, Donald B. Redford, Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz, Edward Robinson, father Luis-Hugues Vincent (1872-1960), E.L. Sukenik, L.A. Mayer, Kathleen Kenyon, Ben-Arieh, Netzer, Emmet W. Hamrick, Hans Güterbrock, Micael Astour, Anson Rainey, Gordon Young. Articles: Nefertiti; Temple walls; Map of Jerusalem;
July 1987, Avraham Biran, LaMoine F. DeVries, Volkmar Fritz, Pierre Benoit.
Sept. 1987, John J. Bimson, David Livingston, Josette Elayi, Ze'ev Yeivin.; Ancient Chorazin, full page color image on front cover of a carved basalt column.
Nov. 1987, Hartmut Stegemann, Magen Broshi, `The gigantic visionary temple in the temple scrolls' [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
; Baruch Halpern (against Bimson), William S. LaSor, Robert R. Stieglitz, `Ancient records and the Exodus plagues' (shows painted color scene of Egyptians during the plague and painting by Nicolas Poussin, `The plague at Ashdod'); Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), Sir Arthur Evans, Duncan McKenzie, Ze'ev Yeivin, `The mysterious 62 pound silver hoard from Eshtemoa'; Theodore Fyfe, David Eisenhower, Joseph Urig, Mrs. Dowd, Mamie Eisenhower, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Barbara Eisenhower, Les Barnet (organist), Art Rush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Eisenhower, Jerry Falwell, Kahil Iskander Shaheen.
BAR Mar 1988, Ygal Shiloh - includes sketch map of the City of David and photo as well as the column fragment. Also shown (p. 22) are carved wood fragments from Jerusalem's `burned room' dating back to when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city in 586 BC.; David Ussishkin, `Restoring the great gate at Lachish'; Gabriel Barkay, Itzaq Beit-Arieh, `New Light on the Edomites'; Cross, Freedman, Phyllis Trible, Strugnell, Stager, Muhly, Daver, Gottwald, Finkelstein, Davies, Wood,Oren;
May 1988, Victor Paul Furnish (`Corinth at Paul's Time'), Itzaq Beit-Arieh(`The {Exodus} Route Through Sinai'; He didn't consider `Nuweiba Beach'.), Menahem Magan, Dr. John Stott, Nahman Avigad, Yohanan Aharoni.; Articles: The Exodus Route through the Sinai'
July 1989, Alexander Flinder (`Is this Solomons Seaport', on Jezirat Faraun.), Alan C. Leventen, Amir Drori. Image: This issue shows 3 broken statuettes of the male deity Baal wearing a fezlike hat, typical for Phoenicia of the Iron Age, sporting what looks like a mustache and beard and with his lower lip slightly forward. Another Baal figure wears a more pointed, Osiris style hat, p. 26. Also shown are figurines described as the maternal Astarte from Tel Dor, p. 28.; Contains the info that the platform from which the Torah is read in a synagogue is preferably called "bimah" rather than "bamah." `Bamah' carries a secondary meaning, such as a pagan altar or high place, which `bimah' does not.
Sept. 1989, Joseph Patrich (caver), Robert Eisenman, Frank J, Yurko.
Nov 1989, Old photo Image of Edward Robinson (1794-1863), `Father of Biblical Geography', p. 30.; The Rittmeyers, Kostas Mumcuoglo, Joseph Zias, Joseph Aviram, Charles Warren; Reconstructing Herod's Temple mount.; Drawn map of Jerusalem.; Images: 1) Shows a bronze votive bull/calf from Sumer, p. 61.; 2) An ivory carved comb with a kneeling `ibex' and a `sphinx', p. 66.
BAR Jan. 1990, Trude Dothan, Joan G. Scheuer, Seymour Gitin, Dr. Tim LaHaye, Edward E. McAteer, Dr. Paige Patterson, John D. Ashcroft.
Mar. 1990, Bryant Wood, Seymour Gitin, Kathleen & Leen Ritmeyer, Eric Meyers, David Noel Freedman, Joe Seger, Oded Borowski, John Holladay, Darrell Lance, Robert Wright, Anita Walker, Dan Cole, Darrell Lance, Eric Meyers, Dever, Stager, Dina Castel. Articles: Walls of Jericho.
May 1990, Bargil Pixner, Erika Bleibtreu. Articles on Jerusalem from the air: Hinnom, Tyropoeon and Kidron Valley, Temple area.; Article, Erika Bleibtreu, `Five Ways to Conquer a City,' p. 37-44.; Contains B&W and color images including Layard drawings (a partial fish costume), A List of Assyrian Palaces where Wall Reliefs were found. [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
July 1990, Gideon Foerster, Yoram Tsafrir, Gaby Mazor, Abraham Levy, Abraham Malamat; has articles on glorious Beth Shean; Small inventions - on metal crucibles; the Tell Fakhariyah inscription compared to the Nora fragment - which is upside down?,
Sep 1990, Frank Yurco, Vassilios Tzaferis, Donald J. Wiseman. Merenptah aricles. Artist's drawing of Roman Hippos.
Nov. 1990, Thomas E. Levy, Gershon Edelstein, Yehuda Rapuano, John J. Hughes
BAR Jan. 1991, Steven Sachs, Don Geza Vermes, Erika Bleibtreu, Christos Doumas, Kenneth G. Holum.
Mar 1991, Lawrence Stager, `When Canaanites and Philistines ruled Ashkelon', info on MBIIC, conv. Ramses III. (sea wars); Images: Shows full size color image of the digging site slope, shows the location where the silver calf was found, Side bar article on MB fortifications, p. 30., Article on Tiberias, Sea of Galilee., Shows ladies objects found in a cistern.; Side bar article on pope Pail vi, Second Vatican Council's declaration `Nostra Aetate' dealing with how Jews are viewed today, p. 58.; Shows a figure of Asherah from the temple of Artemis of Ephesus, p. 63.; Yizhar Hirschfeld, Eugene Fisher, Emmanuel Tov, Eugene Ulrich, John Strugnell, J.T. Milik, Magen Broshi, Jonas Greenfield, Shemaryahu Talmon, Amir Drori.
Jul 1991, Larence A. Stager, Paula Wapnish, Tsvi Schneider, Harrison Eiteljorg, Dan Rodriguez. Articles: Six seal impressions; Pagan temple of Ashkelon and infanticide; Computer views of the 5th century BC Acropolis Gateway of Athens; Contains list of Roman rulers based on coins: Emperor Antonius Pius (138-161 AD), Empress Julia Domna, 2nd wife of Septimius Severus (193-211), and great-aunt of Emperor Elagabalus (born 203- murdered 222 after 4 years of reign).
Sep 1991, Adam Zertal (`Israel enters Canaan'), Ruth Hestrin, Steven J. Adler, W.F. Albright, George Mendenhall, Albrecht Alt, Yohanan Aharoni, Norman Gottwald, Benjamin Mazar, L. Ritmeyer, Menachem Elon, Gavriel Bach. This issue contains a map of Israel as proportioned out to the tribes, p. 32. The image of a Tabor oak with its characteristic acorn, p. 34. Collared rim storage jars. A view of the mountains of Manasseh, Wadi Malih and Wadi Far'ah with the hill of el 'Unuq, thought to be Biblical Gilgal, p. 42.
BAR Jan 1992, Theresa Wigginton, Danny Syon, John D, Currid, James M. Robinson, Jozef Milik, Shmarya Gutmann. Images: Shows aerial photo of the puzzling building, which indeed it is, at Hazor's tripartite site.
Mar 1992, Leen Ritmeyer, Dale C. Allison, Harvey Minkoff, Trude Dothan, William Tyndale (Bible translator, reformer), Baruch Halpern, P. Kyle McCarter; Features articles and great views on the Temple Mount; Nimrud Ivories; A round clay tablet with cuneiform writing on page 4.-
May 1992, Nitza Rosovsky, F.M. Cross, Richard A. Batey, John W. Wright, Nahman Avigad, E.L. Sukenik, Ruth Amiran, Yair Engel, Yigael Yadin (1937). Map of Jerusalem. Plan of a Jerusalem mansion. Pomegranate. Sephoris.
Jul 1992, Harry M. Orlinsky, Moshe Kochavi, Timothy Renner, Ira Spar, Jodi Magness, Emanuel Tov, Frank Moore Cross.
Sep 1992, Zvi Greenhut, Ronny Reich, Pieter W. van Der Horst, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, John Laughlin, Ygael Yadin.
Nov. 1992, Itamar Singer, James Tabor, Elisha Linder, Zeev Weiss, Gabreil Barkay, Benedict T. Viviano, Dwight L. Moody. Model of a 400 BC ship. Underwater archaeology.
BAR Jan 1993, E. Stern, `The Many Masters of Dor.' Mentions among other things that the Sikils, who are regarded, right or wrong, as a Philistine tribe who were involved in piracy.; Kenneth Gewertz,; W.T. Butler, On Excavating Beth-Shean'. Beth Shean was excavated in a grid leaving catwalks intact to preserve stratigraphy.; Baruch Safrai, L.E. Stager, Bob Mullins, Alan Dershowitz.
Mar. 1993, Ephraim Stern, Andrew Stewart; Zvi Gal, `Cabul- A royal gift found' (Hiram scorns Solomon's offering of 20 cities - called Cabul.); This Cabul (Josh. 19:27) is Arab village of Kabul.; Thomas W. Davis, Julius Wellhausen, W.F. Albright, Melvin Grove Kyle, N. Glueck, G.E. Wright, Paul Lapp, Pere Roland De Vaux, Dever, Michael Wise, Norman Golb, Elisha Qimron.
May 1993, Ephraim Stern, Steven FriesenBarbara Burrell, Kathryn Gleason, Ehud Netzer; Volkmar Fritz `Where is Ziklag (1Sam. 27:1-7)', says it is T. es Seba, just east of Beer-Sheva.; William Cox. Articles: Ephesus; Essarhadon Stela, p. 41; Shows head of emperor Titus (79-81); Herod's Sea-side palace; David's Ziklag, photo of Tell es-Seba;
Jul 1993, Zvi Greenhut, J. Huston McCulloch, P. Kyle McCarter, Mattanyah Zohar, Ephraim Isaac, Ruth Hestrin, Reuben Hecht, William F. Albright, Kathleen Kenyon, Miriam Tadmore, Ruth Amiran, Roland De Vaux, Benjamin Mazar, Pesach Bar-Adon, Elisha Qimron.
Sept. 1993, Moshe & Trude Dothan, `Philistines, Ramses III, Medinet Habu', Israel Stele with the glyphs for Israel.; Kathleen Ritmeyer, Temple model.; John C.H. Laughlin, Ann Baldwin, David Freseman, Eugenia Ballesteros, Rabbi Richard Harkavy.
Nov. 1993, Larry G. Herr, Manfred R. Lehmann, James E. Harper, Mendel Nun (Galilee fisherman), Stephen D. Lowe, Siegfried Horn, H. Wright-Baker, Zvi Greenhut, Moshe Hartal, Avi Ofer, Zvi Gal, Ben Zion Wacholder, Martin Abegg, Elisha Qimron, Bill Hybels.
BAR Jan 1994, I. Finkelstein, David Ussishkin, Graham I. Davies, Jo David, Kenneth Atkinson, Hanan Eshel, Gwen Latta, Sharon Wiese, Dwight Kealy, Flinders Petrie 1890's, Dead Sea Scroll 4Q448; Images: Full pages of Tell Megiddo, the Jezreel Valley, The `Shema servant of Jeroboam' Seal, A Gilgamesh Epic Tablet, The Orpheus Jug, King Solomon's Stables;
Mar 1994, Amir Drori, Rafael Peled, Avraham Biran, Abraham Rabinovich, Connie Kestenbaum Green, Sam Wolff, Y. Yadin, E. Hemingway, Ronny Reich, Zvi Greenhut, Siegfried H. Horn, Martin Peretz, L. Stager, F. Cross.; Article on `House of David' (more), shows the labyrinthine city gate of Dan, p. 34,36., Also a color aerial view of the entire area.;
May 1994, Andre Lemaire, David Ussishkin, J. Glen Taylor, George J. Brooke, Beth Alpert Nakhai. Photo of the high place of Dan. Moabite Stone. Tombs of Silwan.; Images: 1) Shows color photo of the ruins of Dhiban where the Mesha Stele was found. 2) Pictures of the traditional tomb of Pharaoh's daughter and the ravaged area called `royal tombs', p. 46-47.
July 1994, Simon B. Parker, Dan Gill, John Strugnell, Emmanuel Tov, Emile Puech, Jonas Greenfield, Roland de Vaux, J.T. Milik, G. Lankester Harding, Elisha Qimron.; Contains Davis article on the Tell Dan Inscription; cross section of Jerusalem mountains.
Sep 1994, Jack Neusner, Morton Smith, Salo W. Baron, Adin Steinsaltz, Lee I. Levine, Shaye Cohen, E.P. Sanders, Aharon Kempinski; Exodus Itinerary; View of Medinet Habu of Ramses III from above; Cunei name of Qishon of Jabin; Wadi Qumran view; Nice color image of the mount and typical date palm tree behind Ein Gedi p. 28, 31; Shows the mosaic with the Madaba map on p. 33.
Nov 1994, The Ritmeyers (On Akeldama), Gideon Avni, Zvi Greenhut `Akeldama - The potters field', `High priest annas' burial cave', Martin Abegg `Paul - Works of the Law' in a Dead Sea Scroll - "Miqsat ma'ase ha-Torah," covers also the Qimron & Strugnell translated text of the Dead Sea Scroll, for which people have waited 35 years.; Steve Hewitt, Anson Rainey, `House of David,' Tell Dan inscription.; Luciano Pavarotti (1936 to Sept. 5,2007 pancreatic cancer), Christopher Parkening, Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampat, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazal, Sir Georg Solti, John Eliot Gardiner, Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, Roland De Vaux, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, John Strugnell, Elisha Qimron, Peter Lorre, Amir Golani, Mahmoud Hawari, Zeev Weiss, Tallay Ornan.; Shown also is an overall drawn map of Jerusalem showing: 1) the perimeter of the Roman siege wall, Mt. of Olives, Kidron Valley, Temple Mount, `Assyrian camp', Herod's monument, Serpent's Pool, the monument of Annas and the directions to the `House of Pulse' and `Pompey's Encampment'.
BAR Jan 1995, Tammi Schneider, Mindi Epstein-Goldin, Ephraim Stern, Adolfo Roitman, Sir Austin Henry Layard, Roland de Vaux; Images: Scenes from the Black Obelisk.; Shows a drawing of a partially reconstructed palmette sided on both sides by the figures of two Phoenician style priests raising their arms as they pay worship on either side of the tree of life, at the center is an Egyptian style winged sun-disk, over each wing is the bird representing Astarte between which is the circular hollow for cosmetics, see p. 55.
Mar. 1995, Kenneth Kitchen, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Robert Magruder, Margery Mitton, Varda Sussman, Joseph A. Callaway, Ziony Zevit, Helene Kantor (Oriental Institute), Teddy Kollek (mayor of Jerusalem), John Strugnell, Jacob Neusner, Elie Borowski, Julius Wellhausen, Bruce Metzger, James Barr, Ben Zion Wacholder.
May 1995, Michael D. Coogan, Bezalel Porten, Jonas C. Greenfield (linguist, 1926-1995), William A. Moffett (1933-1995), Bernhard Anderson, Joseph Aviram, Claire Epstein, I. Finkelstein, Philip J. King, Helmut Koester, Menahem Mansoor, Amihai Mazar, Ya'akov Meshorer, Keith N. Schoville, Paul Wapnish, David Ussishkin, Bryan G. Wood, Edwin Yamauchi, Ann Baldwin, Marisa Horowitz, Larry Oswalt, Vesta Mayland, Joel Abenth, Crysti Finch, Lester & Sylvia Zeitler, Charles Edwin Wilbour, Gaston Maspero;
Jul 1995, Joan E. Taylor, Elie Borowski (`Cherubim: God's Throne'), Tallay Ornan, Robin A. Jensen, Thomas E. Levy (`Archaeological Methods:' Includes subterranean Shiqmim), Ronald S. Hendel (`Patriarchal Memories', Includes photo of Upper Euphrates at border of Turkey, p. 58), Murray Perahia, Pierre Boulez, Kronos string quartet, Gil Shaham, Sylvia McNair, Ivo Pogorelich, Sir George Solti, Millar Burrows & Nelson Glueck (1936), Preston Addison.; Article: Joan Taylor, `The Garden of Gethsemane', p. 26.
Sep 1995, Shows the name of Paul (though not the apostle) in capitalized Greek letters, , p. 40.; Yizhar Hirschfeld, Aharon Kempinski (`From Death to Resurrection'/Ahiram's sarcophagus details), William G. Dever.
Nov 1995, Andre Lemaire, Claire Epstein, Ricardo Montalban, Baruch Levine, Miriam Tadmor; Articles: Jerusalem down under.
BAR Jan 1996, Leen Ritmeyer, Lawrence E. Stager, Paula Wapnish, Brian Hesse, F.M. Cross, Kenneth Atkinson, Jack Roe, Rachel Bierling, Sharon Zuckerman, Sari Rose, Wake Forest, Orna CohenHila Devori.
Mar. 1996, Ronny Reich, Larry G. Herr, Robert S. Maclennan, P. Kyle McCarter, Joe Seger.
May 1996, Vladimir Horowitz, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor), Isaac Stern (violinist), Glenn Gould (pianist), Gideon Avni, Asher Grossberg, James Dobson, Shlomo Moussaieff;
Jul 1996, Carol A. Grissom, Harriet Beanbien, Also shows Solomon Gate of Gezer, Tell Dan Inscription, Tell Hazor, Isr. Stele, the `Jacob Scarab', Well of Abraham, Aerial view of En Hatzeva, idols and cult stands, Edomite stone seal, Farouk El-Baz (Dry rivers in Saudi Arabia).;
Sep 1996, Joe D. Seger, Adam Zertal, Ricardo Montalban, James Charlesworth, Benjamin A. Gilman (R-NY), Amir Drori, Solomon Schechter (Talmud scholar), Agnes Lewis and twin sister Margaret Gibson.; See article by John S. Crawford, `Multiculturalism at Sardis.; Contains B&W aerial side view of a model of the palace of Darius I (522-486 BC) in Susa and the supposedly third millennium BC Ziggurat of Ur.
Nov 1996, George Reisner, Ehud Olmert, Gabriel Barkay, Ehud Netzer, Edward Cook. Articles: The Herodium; Bible software; Tunip-Tessup of Tikunani: This article states, "A new king of an obscure kingdom called Tikunani has just been discovered. According to interpreters, Tikunani was situated somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers near the modern Syrian-Turkish border, but we suggest it may have been Baalbek (map) in about the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. Its king was named Tunip-Teššup." The location would put it near what was Mitanni and the likelihood of a Mitannien connection is rather high. The source is a square prism about 8 ½ inches high. It contains a colophon which describes the prisms contends: a list of 438 workers who served Tunip-Teššup, a name which occurs in the Amarna letters, where `Tesup' may be a divinity the name being a combination of place and divinity.
Side Bar: This issue shows a coin struck under Emperor `Constantine the Great' to celebrate the founding of Constantinople (privately owned). On Monday, May 11, 330 AD he presided over a ceremony in which the city's name was changed from Byzantium to Constantinopel. As part of the ceremony the emperor presented dignitaries with special coins that were struck at Constantinople's mint according to its identifying exergue at the bottom. Since it was Roman tradition for emperors to make such presentations themselves, this coin may have been handled by Constantine himself. This particular coin differs from others in that its reverse side shows Roma, the goddess of Rome, not the goddess of Constantinople. His sons, and other coins, later, would mint coins showing both goddesses separated by a shield. Note: Color image of emperor's side provided on p. 24. The Latin shows as best as we can tell: Right side: "HAXTBIUMFHUG" (a bit uncertain); Left Side: "DNCONSTANTINUS"; Bottom: "MCONSS".
Herod the Great inscription: The issue also shows a sherd found in a dump at Massada reading, "?FENTA ?M... ?MC? M??? ... REC ... MAXIS JUD...", p. 27.; Translated: "Herod the Great, King of the Jews [or Judea]."
BAR Jan 1997, Betty W. Pineville, Frank K. Leesburg, Par Boone, James D. Muhly (Assyriologist), Montserat Giron Abumalham (Madrid University), Carol Lowry, Chris A. Rollston, Duncan Mackenzie (Tell Beth Shemesh); Painting of ancient Jerusalem, p. 50,51; Photo of all of Palmyra overview, p. 68; Photo of overall view of Elihu Grant overseeing the excavation of Beth-Shemesh in 1928.;
Mar 1997, Shelby White, Leon Levy, James Bennet Pritchard, James Sauer, Prince Raad bin Seid, Joe D. Seger, Artemis Jonkowsky, Leonard Wooley in action, Amos Kloner, Jo Ann Hackett, Edward M. Luby.; Images: A painted elephant from Maresha is shown on p. 32 and the gilded ram found by Wooley at Ur which was interpreted to be a memory of Genesis 22:13, the ram in the thicket.
May 1997, W. Raymond Johnson, Christian David Ginsberg, Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Moses Shapira, James Strange, Bargil Pixner. Also contains information on the discovery of the `Light House' of Alexandria, Egypt.
Jul 1997, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche, Wm. Dever, P. Kyle McCarter, Seymour Gittin, Trude Dothan; Image of Black Obelisk; Earthquakes.
Sep 1997, Amir Drori, Wm. Frederic Bade (`Mizpah'), Jeffrey Zorn, Stephen Tabachnick, Jane Cahill, Steve Mason, Frederick L. Simmons; contains Lawrence of Arabia, Jezirat Faroun, Kadesh Barnea; Stepped Stone structure; Assyrian reliefs; Josephus.
Nov 1997, Shmuel Givon, Ann Killebrew, Raz Kletter, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, Manfred Lehmann, Lois & Willard Cohodas, Ehud Netzer, Hanan Eshel, Hadrian, Joe Zias, Gabriel Barkay, Emile Puech, James Sanders, Hillel Geva, Kenneth G. Hollum, Alan F. Segal, Hanan Eshel.; Articles: Roman Jerusalem with images and maps (p. 36,42), Damascus Gate. In November 17, 1997 the Deir el-Bahari temple site was the scene of a bloody massacre of about 60 tourists.- This issue shows the Latin inscription of the Emperor Titus whose family name was Vespasian, the general who destroyed Jerusalem after he became emperor of the Roman Empire reigning from 79-81 AD. The stela reads, "IMP[ERATOR] CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUG[USTUS]..." plus "LEG-X-FRE", the abbreviation for the 10th Roman Legion. Also shown is a second triumphal column, dating from 300 AD, dedicated to the 10th legion, "To Marco Junio Maximo, legate, on behalf of the emperors, of the 10th Legion of Sergius Julius Honoratus - his adjutant." This was found north of David's citadel in 1885. Page 40.
Also found was an ostraca receipt for the temple of Solomon written in paleo Hebrew and reading, (K'SR SWK.SY / HW.HMLK.LTT.BYD / [Z]KRYHW.KSP TR / SS.LBYT YHWH[.] / S 3 ) "Pursuant to the order to you of Ashya / hu the king to give by the hand / of [Z]echaryahu silver of Tar- / shish to the House of Yahwah / Three shekels.", p. 28-32. The paleo writing for `the House of Yahweh' is as follows:
BAR Jan. 1998, Hanan Eshel, Jodi Magness, Joseph Patrich, Yizhar Hirschfeld; Articles: `The Enigma of Qumran.' shows a portion of Papyrus Anastasi 5, p. 65 and `Pi-Ramesses, p. 66 including a stele of Seti I over written by Ramses II .
Mar. 1998, Alain Zivie, Avraham Biran, Nadav Na'aman, David Usishkin.
May 1998, Amir Drori, James H. Charlesworth, Reinhard Pummer `Samaritan vs Jewish Synagogue', includes aerial picture of the Synagogue of Samara, Carolyn R. Higginbotham `Egyptianizing of Canaan' - Shows image of stone lintel with cartouche of Ramses III from governor's house, Ada Yardeni, Zvi Gal `Assyrian Conquest', picture of siege of a city, Robert Deutsch.
Jul 1998, Isaac Stern, Trude Dothan, Richard Freund, Rami Arav, Portrait of David Roberts by Robert Scott Lander, Abraham Levy, Jane Cahill, Nadav Na'aman, Ephraim Stern `Spanish? Silver hoard from Dor', Dr. James H. Charlesworth.; Articles: `David's Jerusalem', `A Letter from Jerusalem'; Shows drawing of Ariel's House with the stepped stone structure.
Sep. 1998, Darren Staloff, City College NY, Michael Sugrue, Princeton Univ., Dennis Dalton, Columb. Univ., Alan Kors, Univ. of PA, Aaron Demsky, Y. Magen;
Nov 1998, Paul Wapnish, Brian Hesse, Thomas Parker, Pirhiya Beck, John Punnet Peters, Herman Hilprecht (Assyriologist), Cassandra Haynes, Gary Vikan, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Joseph Zias; Articles on `debunking the shroud'[200] and `Masada'.
BAR Jan 1999, Charles Warren. Watten Shaft images. View of Deir el-Medina, Egypt.
Mar. 1999, Amihai Mazar, Eugene Ulrich, Jane Cahill, Robert Deutsch, Amnon Ben-Tor, Boaz Zissu,Yitzhak Levy. Images of Hazor.
Jul 1999, Ehud Barak, Mendel Nun, Frank Cross, Susan Ackerman, Anthony Saldarini, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Avraham Biran, Robin Jensen, David N. Freedman, Bernhard Anderson, Abraham Malamat, David Jacobson; Images: Ports of Galilee, Mount of Megiddo, Babylonian Chronicle, Sacred Geometry of the Temple mount, Turin shroud;
Sep 1999, Susan Ackerman, Anthony Saldarini, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Avraham Biran, Bernhard Anderson, Amir Ganor, A. Biran, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), Clarence Fisher, Abba Eban, Staim Churman (1891-1938)(Settlement leader, was killed in 1938 in a car by a land mine), two sheiks of the Zenati tribe, Charles Orde Wingate (1903-1944) a British army officer, Lewis Andrews, Teddy Kollek (tourism office head, later mayor (1965-1993)), Joseph Aviram, Benjamin Mazar, general Avraham Yoffe.;
Nov. 1999, Robert Schuller, Karen Vitelli, Shelby White, Leon Levy, Joseph Aviram, Frank Cross, Peter Richardson, Lawrence Stager, Robert Ballard. Artwork of David's Jerusalem.
BAR Jan 2000, T. &. M. Dothan, Pope John Paul II, Sir Leonard Wooley, How he preserved the 12 string lyre; a golden dagger, a gold/silver (electrum) 6 inch tumbler next to the hand of Puabi; How Wooley wired his discovery in Latin: "TUMULUM SAXIS EXSTRUCTUM LATERICIA ARCATUM INTEGRUM INVENI REGINAE SHUBAD"; "I found the intact tomb, stone built and vaulted over with bricks of Queen Shubad".; Wayne Palmer, Edgar Hardesty, Amir Feldstein, Rachel Pelta, Angela Roskop, Barbara Johnson, John F. Shroder, Rami Arav, Richard A. Freund, N.T. Wright, James Vanderkam, Anthony Saldarini, James Tabor, Bruce Ware.
Mar 2000, Karen Vitelli, Shelby White, Leon Levy, Fawwaz Khrayshah, Thomas Thompson, John Van Seters, William F. Albright, Tel Rehov, John Camp, Where was the Temple of Jerusalem, Philip Davies, Amihai Mazar, Asher Kaufman, Leen Rittmeyer, W. Dever, Susan Ackerman, Robin Jensen, James Tabor, D. Freedman, Jim Reiman, Anne Graham Lotz, Jerry Jenkins, John Trent, Chris Rodriguez, Clay Crosse. ; Article: Ritmeyer and Kaufman respond to Jacobson, Where was the Temple?, p. 52-61,69. [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
May 2000, Vassos Karageorghis (former Antiqu. Director of Cyprus), Zi Gal (battles bulldozers), Aerial image of Tell Ain Dara, Syria, p. 22 discovered in 1954. See also account and evidence of an Egyptian temple in Jerusalem by G. Barkay, p. 48-57.
Jul 2000, J.&C. Merrill, Ed Gitow, Frederick L. Simmons, Joseph G. Hurley, Davia Solomon, Ronny Reich, James A. Sauer, N.P. Lemche, article on Sepphoris (shows also inscriptions), Article on the Exodus (shows full page statue head of Akhnaton, shows the cedar wood sarcophagus of Ramses II.; errs in chronological aspects. Akhnaton, the 18th dynasty, is not anywhere near of the time of the Exodus.;
Sep 2000, (Contains a large 2 page color layout of major sites of Jerusalem); Jean Baptiste Humbert, Tim & Beverly LaHaye, Zeev Weiss, Suzanne Singer. Contains image of a section of a marble altar found at a Byzantine monastery/way station, info & pix on underground temple mount mosque.; Article `The missing millennium', `2000 year old (Hezekiah) tower found' and Babylonian arrow heads;
BAR Jan 2001, Leon & Shelby Levy, Shows images of Joseph's tomb being damaged (p. 19) and the `Menorah Relief on a column of the inside Great Mosque of Gaza (p. 22)' written in Hebrew and Greek, which was during another Palestinian uprising between 1987-1993 destroyed, p. 22.; Shown too are a Mosaic of the Gaza (David's Lute) and Jericho (a menorah) Synagogues.; Yohanan Aharoni, Y. Yadin (shows finds of metal shovels, etc.), Richard Freund, Shows the Arch of Titus menorah, `Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem', head of Taharqa and a hieroglyphic stela of his time, Bridget Benish, Eric Chuang, Andy Hill, Gina Fugate, Jaqueline du Toit, Lynda Hunter, Sandra Kailey, Audrey Shaffer (LLU), Muafaq Battayneh, Jason Schlude.
Mar 2001, Shuka Dorfman, Michael L. Klein, Larry Stager, Ami Mazar, Carol Meyers, Amnon Ben-Tor, Phil King, Andrea Berlin, Ephraim Stern, D.N. Freedman, Jonas Greenfield, James Bennett Pritchard (1909-1997), Ruth Amiran, Jodi Magness, John Strugnell, Elisha Qimron, Jim Reimann, Steve Farrar, John Trent, Dr. Ed Dobson; L. Herr, Excavating the tribe of Reuben - east of the northern Dead Sea., Umayri/Umeiri.; Roussin, `Helios in the Synagog,' Jews worshiping sun god? - with images of mosaic floors; Answer? - "Josephus writes, `Sun and moon are indicated by the two sardonyxes [a semiprecious gem] wherewith [the high priest] pinned his robe. As for the 12 stones [breastplate], whether one would prefer to read in them the months or the constellations of like number, which the Greeks call the circle of the zodiac, he will not mistake the lawgiver's intention.' (Antiquities, Bk. 3, 185-186. Also mentions the Sefer ha-Razim, Book of Secrets.); The reason Tel Umeyri (disc. 1976) was identified as of the time of the Tribe of Reuben was at least to some extent if not mainly on the basis of the `Seal of Milkom'ur' (Jer. 40:13-16 on Baalis) and that it was viewed as a transition period site from LB/early IA to the Persian period (ca. 1200 BC - 500 BC). Also found were dolmen, community graves with 20 skulls.
May 2001, Ephraim Stern, Claire Epstein, Uzni Avner, Alan R. Millard;
Jul 2001, the virtual temple mount p. 16, Cyrus H. Gordon, Colosseum of Rome, sculpture of Vespasian (69-79), Triumphal Arch of Titus, King Hezekiah's Seal, Louis Feldman, Jodi Magness, Joanne Besonen, Meir Lubetski, James Charlesworth, Martin Abegg, Peter Flint, Lawrence Schiffman, Louis H. Feldman, Hanan Eshel; Articles: Greek remains at Dor, Financing the Colosseum - Deciphering the Inscriptions; Images: Titus' triumphal return;
Sep 2001, Assault at Masada, Pat Boone, Toni Fisher & Denny Clark getting married at Bethsaida, Josephus, Philip Davies, James Hoffmeier, Kenneth Kitchen, John Monson, Dan Gill, Steven Fine; Images: The Masada Ramp, The Black Obelisk, Bone boxes, Frederick L. Simmons, [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
Nov. 2001, Kenneth Litchen, James Hoffmeier, John Monson, Aren M. Maeir, Vassilios Tzaferis, Carl Ehrlichm, James Hoffmeier, John Monson, K. Kitchen, P. Davis, John Collins, Peter Flint, James Vanderkam; Articles: Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea;
BAR Jan. 2002, M. Mansoor, Mark Green, G. Barkey, James Sanders, Michael Coogan, Ronald Hendel, Robert Ballard;
Mar 2002, Lawrence T. Geraty, David Noel Friedman, Sidnie White Crawford, Frank Moore Cross, William Dever, Jacob Milgrom, Israel Finkelstein, Hugh Williamson, Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Niels Peter Lemche;
May 2002, Daniel Lazare, Avraham Biran, Emanuel Tov, John Strugnell, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Ephraim Stern, Steven Feldman, Adam Zertal, Nivi Mirkam, David Ussishkin.
Jul 2002, Tom Wright, Garo Nalbandian, Bargil Pixner, William F. Bade, Charles Barry (1817), J.M.W. Turner; Searching for the Essenes at Ein Gedi. Shown is a detail map of Upper Ein Gedi (and Tel Gozan) with numbered local spots (the kitchen, pool, lime kiln) along the footpath.; Volkmer Fritz, `How to tell apart Israelites and Canaanites'. The article places mistakenly the emerging of the Israelites in the Iron Age I instead of MB I. More on the `Four Room House'. Egyptian style emblems on Judah's royal seals.
Sep 2002, Martin Schoyen, Khalil Iskander Shahin, John Marc Allegro, Moshe Kochavi; Shows the colossal head of Ramses II (90 inches high by 28 in wide); shows B&W inage of the underwater Kyrenia Ship Wreck; shows Schoyen's copy of the Ur-Nammu code on p. 30.; Shows `the dead sea scrolls of Buddhism'; Shows image of 7th cent. agate cylinder seal, `Gilgamesh slays the Bull of Heaven', p. 32; shows good image of today's Temple mount structures [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]; .
Nov. 2002, Hershel Shanks, Israel Finkelstein, Photo of the Mt. of Meggido and Israel Stele; View of Dor with the Sea.
BAR Jan. 2003, Dr. Randall Buth, Dr. Timothy George (Dean of Stanford Beeson Divinity School), Oded Golan, Roland de Vaux, Florentino Garcia Martinez, Elisha Quimron, Martin Abegg, Emanuel Tov, Ben Zion Wacholder, Avraham Malamat, Benno Landsberger, Benjamin Mazar, W.F. Albright, Phyllis Jane Stetser, John Raab, Bryan Kovach. This issue is largely on the James Ossuary and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mar 2003, Elie Borowski, image of the Taurus Mountain road (p.34), J. Andrew Overman, Gery Lindstrom, Deborah Cantrell, Viscount (General) Allenby of Megiddo, Andre Lemaire, Oded Golan, Osmund Bopearachchi (numismatist), Dever, Richard Freund, Magen Broshi; Features 1) a full page image of the harbor of Kyrenia, Cyprus; 2) an aerial view of the Medinet Habu mortuary temple of Ramses III; 3) a full page image of the road through the Taurus Mtns; 4) Herod's shrine to Augustus.
May 2003, Limor Livnat, David Amiran (geographer), Kathleen Kenyon, Sandy Brenner.; Articles: Mounts (images) where Kings of Judah were lamented; Nimrud, Iraq, ivory.; Shows the well preserved (25 x 17 inch) Greek `Theodotus Inscription' dating from before 70 AD, found in a cystern by Raymond Weill, French archaeologist, in the years before WWI in Jerusalem, reading, "Theodotus son of Vettenus, priest and synagogue leader, son of a synagogue leader, grandson of a synagogue leader, rebuilt this synagogue for the reading of the Law and the teaching of the commandments, and the hostelry, rooms and baths, for the lodging of those who have need from abroad. It was established by his forefathers, the elders and Simonides." (Acts 6:9).
July 2003, Leon Levy, Shuka Dorfman.; Articles: Shechem temple.
Sep 2003, Shuka Dorfman, Oden Golan, Julius Wellhausen, Charles Warren, James Fergusson (specialist in world architecture), Sir George Grove (Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians), Captain Charles Wilson, Louis-Hugues Vincent, Barch Halpern, David Jacobson;
Nov 2003, The Levy's, P.L.O. Guy, James Henry Breastedt, Douglas Esse; Shows traditional tomb of Absalom in natural setting, p. 19. Shows photo of Mt. Ararat.
BAR Jan 2004, Leon & Shelby White, Bridget Benish, Eric Chuang, Gina Fugate, Jaqueline du Toit, Lynda Hunter, Sandra Kailey, Audrey Shaffer, Muafaq Battayneh, Jason Schlude, Rami Arav, Richard Freund;
Mar 2004, Susan Ackerman, Lord Colin Renfrew, wrote `The Emergence of Aegean Civilization', Marsha Joukowski, Andre Lemaire, Avner Goren, Yuval Goren, James Harrel. Images: Site of Marisa/Maresha/Tell Sandahannah; Articles: Report how Israeli Geologists decided the James Ossuary was made of metamorphic greywacke when it was made of arkosic sandstone, common near the Dead Sea, p. 47. This mix up shows how important it is to know your discipline and not just to think you know it. The secret is to listen and consult with peers, I think, since no one person knows it all. Explanation: Arkose is a grey, pink or reddish color, clastic sedimentary rock of the coherent pelite class (grain size <1/16 mm). Its has fairly coarse grains often of feldspar, quartz, biotite, muscovite and others - not well sorted. The cement holding it together may be silicate (quartz, illite), calcite or limonitic[800].; Greywacke are clastic sedimentary rocks of the coherent arenite class (grain size <2 mm). It contains quartz, feldspar, and fragments of mafic igneous, schist, etc. The cement is clayey or chloritic, with iron oxides and hydroxides.
May 2004, Benjamin Mazar, Eilat Mazar, Eric Mayers, Joe Zias, Andrew Vaughn, Yuval Goren, Oded Golan, Walter Brueggemann.; Articles: Jerusalem in the early Christian period and some treasures; Four horned altar (see here for theology); Sardis synagogue drawn cut away view; An aerial view of the Temple mount with a monastery highlighted.
July 2004, Avner Raban, Elie Wiesel, Frank Cross.
Sep 2004, Yaakov Meshorer, Meir Ben-Dov, Eilat Mazar, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Ephraim Stern, Eric Meyers, Emile Puech, Oded Golan. Main Articles: `Vegas of the Med', On Caesarea Maritime.
Nov 2004, Kathleen Kenyon, Yigal Shiloh, Shaul Deutsch, Eli Shukron, Yuval Goren, Shimon Gibson; Articles: Image of remains of an Assyrian palace in Ashdod; John the Baptist; Photos, maps of Jerusalem; Streets of Askelon; Articles: On the `James Ossuary' controversy. Images: The 8th cent. wall of Hezekiah to protect the Gihon Spring and an expanded Jerusalem, p. 31.
BAR Jan 2005, Bastiaan Van Elderen (NT scholar), Niels Peter Lemche, Ralph K. Hawkins (Andrews PhD candidate), Morton Smith, Jacob Neusner, Quentin Quesnel, F. Kallistos Dourvas, James Harrell, Külli Töniste (PhD candidate, London School of Theology), Val Bowden, (studies anthropology), Rami Khouri, Scott G. Brown.
Mar 2005, Eric Meyers; Peter Flint; Latin Inscription 7th Legion; Unearthing Ramat Hanadiv, Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934); Qumran images; Miriam Samet; Babylonian liver omen; High Priest Ephod inscription (1) Bareket (beryl) - Levy; (2) Piteda (topaz) - Shimon; (3) Odem (ruby) - Reuven; (4) Yahalom (diamond) - Zebulun; (5) Sapir (saphire) - Yissachar; (6) Nofech (turquoise) - Yehudah; (7) Achlama (jasper) - Gad; (8) Shevo (agate) - Naphtali; (9) Leshem (jacinth) - Dan; (10) Yashphe (jade) - Binyamin; (11) Shoham (onyx) - Joseph; (12) Tarshish (emerald) - Asher; Image Codex Hammurabi upper part; John Russell; Khalil Iskander Shahin; Leon Levy; Anthropoid coffins; Robert Deutsch; Rafael Brown; Shuka Dorfman; Yoni Pagis; Andre Lemaire; Nahman Avigad; Ada Yardeni; Yuval Goren; Avner Ayalon; Edward Keall; Arnold Spaer; Haggai Sitton; Yizhar Hirschfeld;
May 2005, I. Finkelstein, Amir Drori, Shimon Gibson, F.M. Cross; Shows a nice color photo of a Dhow sailing boat, p. 22. Excavation of Edom (image of site); Images of undisturbed(?) Tel Halif (Lachish);
Jul 2005, Gabrial Barkay, Zachi Zweig, Titus, Vespasianus, James Starkey, Olga Tufnell, Yohanan Aharoni, David Ussishkin, Ronald S. Hendel (evolutionistic UC Berkely professor), William W. Hallo, Kenneth Kitchen, Steven Fine, Philip J. King. Articles: Model of ancient Rome; Jerusalem in Persian times, includes image of a 4 winged crowned figure from Pasargadae, p. 28, image of the Cyrus Cylinder, p. 29.; Lachish; Shows a Scythian-Iranian arrow head from the time of Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Sep 2005, Hershel Shanks, Ronny Reich (The Siloam Pool), Philip Hammond, Gila Cook (discovered the Tell Dan inscription), John Marco Allegro, Shlomo Moussaieff.; Shows a coin with a minorrah which was embedded in the plaster of the Siloam pool dating from the time of Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BC), p. 23.; Jeffrey Chadwick, Discovering Hebron, p. 24-33,70,71. Tells that Crusaders built a monastery right on the location of residences of rulers.; Shown is the border area between Israel and Lebanon with the hill of Kedesh, regarded as a typical border town, p. 37, Andrea Berlin and Sharon Herbert's article describes finds which yielded (1) storage buildings, (2) jars, (3) dinner ware, (4) a Phoenician clay seal of the goddess Tanit, seal impressions representing (5) the Greek sun god Apollo, (6) an anchor (symbol of the Seleucid empire from 2nd cent. BC), (7) a male in Greek profile style, (8) a shaft of wheat and a bunch of grapes with the Greek letters KYDISS for Kedesh, (9) a Greek style profile, (10) Athena Promachus, the Greek goddess of wisdom in fighting form (indicating her wisdom was limited?).; James Muhly mistakenly believes the Mycenaeans were in the area of Tel Dan before the Israelites. His find just underscores what we argued here.
Nov 2005, Nahum Sarner, Moshe Katsav, Aren Maeir, Col. Bogdanos. Shows seal of Yehochal son of Shelemiah, senior official of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah 37:3; 38:1, p. 18.; Images of Iraq Museum in Baghdad, p. 26, after the Fall of Iraq in April of 2003, and other treasures.; Report and images of excavating Ekron, contains a good color image of an artist's reconstruction of the city of Ekron on page 48.; Four sherds found: (1) reads "qds", (2) Asherat, (3) "lmkm" `for the shrine' and "tet", `a tenth', and three lines representing 30.; (4) A sherd reads, " (broken) - - "`for Ba'al and for Padi,' p. 51.; A Ekron temple inscription reads, "The temple which he built, Achish, son of Padi, son of Ysd, son of Ada, son of Ya'ir, ruler of Ekron, for Ptgyh his lady. May she bless him, and protect him and prolong his days, and bless his land." -- Ekron occurs some 20 times in the Bible, starting with Joshua 13:3 to Zechariah 9:7. 2.Kings 1:16 tells us that the god of Ekron at that time was Baalzebub. Also found at Ekron was a 9 inch high piece of ivory tusk bearing the cartouche of pharaoh Merneptah (rev. 569-558 BC)
BAR Jan 2006, Beatta Jurkiewicz, Alex Pekerman, Alexander Cleveland, Katie M. Heffelfinger, Kasia Chudzik, Kristen Ehrhardt, Kathleen Kenyon, Eilat Mazar inside the palace of King David (`King David's Palace') in Jerusalem; Images include a 4 inch clay seal reading, `Belonging to Yehuchal (biblical `Jehucal') son of Shelemiyahu son of Shovi'.; Features the empty `Tomb of Jesus' with images of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, and a tomb of Modiin, the tomb of the Beni Hezir family in the Kidron Valley, Adrian Boas, The Crusader Castles, with images showing `Crac de Chaveliers (Castle of the Knights)' and a great B&W woodcut image of it, a painted image of Godfrey of Bouilion (1060-1100), the `fortress of Belvoir' almost 2000 feet above the Jordan River, Montfort Castle in western Galilee, the area of the `Battle of the Horns of Hattin', the ancient buildings on Jezirat Faraun, Apollonia Arsuf, a town along the Mediterraean Coast known from the days of Richard the Lionhearted (1191); Shuka Dorfman, Hanan Eshel.; Features a drain pipe stamped with the name Eusebius, looks like so `EYCEBIOY', may be `Eusebiou'?, p. 20.; Shows a silver coin with Zeus on his throne from Bethsaida, p. 29. Shows arial view of the fortress of Belvoir above the Jordan River, p. 53, Montfort Castle, p. 54.; Shows the `Horns of Hattin', site of the 7-4-1187 battle between Saladin (1137-1193) and the ca. 15,000 Crusaders under Frederick I. (??), defeating the latter who camped at Sepphoris on way to Tiberias.; Shows the town of Apollonia-Arsue on the Mediterranean Coast, p. 59.; Shows a B&W image of the woodcut of the fortifications of `Carc des Chevaliers', p. 60.; Tombstone image of Richard I., the Lionhearted (1157-1199) king of England, p. 61.;
Mar/Apr 2006, Shows what is described as the name of Goliath in paleo-Hebrew on a sherd from Gath, p. 16.; Andrea Berlin, J. Harold Ellens, Frank M. Cross, David N. Freedman, Philip J. King, Hartmut Stegemann, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Frederick L. Simmons, Ben Witherington, William G. Dever, Yigael Yadin, Amnon Ben-Tor, Phyllis Trible, Hanan Eshel, Sharon Zuckerman (Great color photo of Mt. of Hazor, p. 29; Image of 6 hieroglyphics on a piece of stone from Hazor, p. 37), Doron Ben-Ami, Dennis E. Groh, Ro'i Porat; Paintings: `Hagar in the Wildernes' by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; Detail of `Ruth and Naomi' by Thomas Matthews Rooke; Articles: `Onomasticon of Eusebius'; `A Woman Ruled Egypt'; Comments: This particular issue also illustrates the quanundrom archaeology taught by people trained to think like evolutionists and in conventional chronology are at once the cause of their problems as well as lamenting the works of their own making. It is really sad to behold how they fail to recognize what makes them tick.
May 2006, Leonard Greenspoon, Jozef Milik, Hayim Tadmor, William Hallo, Ruth Amiran, Mary J. W. Leith, Michael D. Coogan, Albright, Adela Y. Collins `Satan's Throne', A. Segal `The Spade hits Susita' - shows image of a cross, Andre Lemaire `Diaspora Jews in Jerusalem', Maynard Maidman, `Abraham, Isaac & Jacob MEET Newton, Darwin & Wellhausen'.;
Jul 2006, Alois Musil, young William F. Albright, Thomas Levy & M. Najjar, `Edom & Copper', includes 3-D satelite image of the highlands of Busayra with location of Khirbat en-Nahas.; Moshe Sharon, `Islam on the Temple Mount', full page color image of the Mosque - inside & outside.; Good color image of a tetradrachm of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, p. 55.; Shows photo of an unnumbered EA letter of Abdi Heba, of whom 6 or 7 letters exist, p. 58.;
Sep/Oct 2006, Leonard Greenspoon, Philip King, John Trever, Jacob Kalman, Bob Morgan, Oren Gutfeld, John Marco Allegro -Comment: discusses the education and bale influence Allegro had plus that of Andre Dupont-Sommer and Edmund Wilson via `The New Yorker' with respect to denigrating Christianity on the basis of what the Dead Sea scrolls meant.; Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Gabrial Barkay, Shmuel Ahituv;
Nov/Dec 2006, Leonard Greenspoon, Rabbi Deutsch, Menachem Magidor, Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943-2006), Phyllis Stetser, H. Schliemann, Arthur Evans, Jeremy McInerney, Eilat Mazar, Manfred Bietak. Images: Great color image of the Mycenaean grave circle A discovered by Schliemann in 1876, p. 34.; the lion gate and palace at Knossos, a Katishma church plan and photos, the temple mount where the Roman Xth Legion was supposed to have camped, an aerial view of the Island of Thera.; Articles: Mary Theotokos and the Kathisma church; - This probably pre-Islamic church was the first built just outside of Bethlehem in about 456 AD after the council of Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451) which officially recognized and confirmed Mary's status as Theotokos (mother of god). If Mary, the mother of Jesus, should be especially honored see here for our German readers.;
BAR Mar/Apr 2007, Sidebars/ Articles: Greek epics depicted on Cypriot sarcophagus; K. Kenyon, Roger Moorey, L. Greenspoon, Yizhar Hirschfeld, Benedict xvi, Moody Smith, Bryant Wood, H. Schliemann & Sophia, Bart D. Ehrman, Dever, James F. Strange, L. Schiffman; Yamauchi, `Historic Homer did it happen?.;
Jul 2007, Sean W. Dever, Image of Sennacherib on throne after defeat of Lachish, Galilee in the time of Jesus, Geza Vermes / Lawrence Schiffman `Dead Sea Scrolls', Andre Lemair, Wolfgang Krumbein, Chaim Cohen, Andrew Vaughn, Ada Yardeni, Aaron Demsky,
Sep 2007, Timothy P. Harrison, James F. Ross, Hillel Geva, Eilat Mazar, Ronald S. Hendel, Shlomo Bunimovitz, `Hadrian suppresses 2nd Jewish Revolt', `Hadrian's Hard Won Victory', `Excavating Magdala', James Charlesworth `Dead Sea Scrolls', James Vanderkam, `Ivory pomegranate inscription a fake?' with close up images.; Shows fragments of a non-canonical Book of Enoch, a blend of apocalyptic wisdom literature from Qumran, p. 64.; Shows pieces of a Latin monumental arch raised by Rome to commemorate the victory of Hadrian against rebellious Judea. It reads, and the blue letters remained, IMP CAES ° DIVI ° TRAIANI ° PAR THICIF ° DIVI ° NERVAE ° NEP ° TRAIANO ° HADRIANO ° AVG PONTIF MAX ° TRIB ° POT ° XX ° IMP ° II ° COS ° III ° P ° P ° S ° P ° Q ° R", P. 48.; Shows the few fragments of the `Book of Enoch.' Scholars will say that Genesis 6:1-4 tells that angels and woman begat the race of giants. The truth is explained here.;
BAR Mar 2008, The 3 inch tall proto-Elamite `Guennol Lioness' found in modern day Iraq sold for $57 million. What a waste of money based on faulty chronology and who knows what else.; James Fleming; Dick Steffy; Othmar Keel; Andrew Vaughn; Jezebel's royal seal??; Christopher Rollston; 9 contenders for Emmaus (Emmaus-Nicopolis, Emmaus-Qubeibeh, Abu Gosh, Motza, less likely - Ram, Bet Neqofa, Beit Ulma, Chamesh, Artas), p. 42 map included; Barbara Board (1916-1986); Emir Abdullah image in ca. 1937; A.W. Tozer; Marjo Korpel; Lycian tombs of Myra image;
May 2008, `The Stones the Builders Rejected' talks about the quarry which produced the ashlars used to build the Herodian Temple of Jerusalem. It was located about 2 miles northwest of the Temple site near a place called today, Ramat Shlomo. Shows an image of `stones the builders rejected,' p. 20, to help illustrate Mt. 21:42; Mk. 12:10; Lk. 20:17.; The largest block of stone produced was 42 feet long and weighs nearly 600 tons, that is 1,200,000 pounds! Compare that to the largest monolith at Stonehenge, which weighs 40 tons, or the 15 ton blocks of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.; Shows image of Nebi Samwil, also known as Mons Gaudii/ Mount Joy, 5 miles northwest of Jerusalem.- This location is now thought to be ancient Mizpah where Saul was crowned King of Israel but a number of other locations have also been named as that of Mizpah, therefore we do not really know.; Shows a 12th century crusader map of Jerusalem protected by five gates, the mountain of Mons Gaudii (Montjoie) and the Masphat, Latin for Mizpah, church.; In memory of the conventional theologians/ archaeologists Bernhard W. Anderson (1916-2007) and Philip C. Hammond (1924-2008).; H. Shanks, `Ein Gedi's Archaeological Riches'. Talks about, with illustrations, the Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi and how the Ghassulian culture finds were made in the cave: 429 copper cultic objects, including 240 maceheads, ca. 100 scepters, and 10 circular objects looking like little crowns.; Talks about Bagram, also known as Kapisa located just north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Shown is a glass fish found there of probably Roman times. The city was destroyed by Cyrus, the Persian king, rebuilt by Darius, and fortified by Alexander the Great. By 100 A.D. it was the summer capital of the Kushans, whose empire had its roots in China.; Issue shows images of America's 1784 first silver dollar from a ship wreck in the Gulf of Mexico. The readable letters are, obverse: US ° III . . . DEI GRATIF ...; REVERS: HISPAN ET IND ° RE;
Jul 2008, Ze'ev Meshel; Nava Panitz-Cohen; Hananya Hizmi; Kebbeth Atkinson; John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852); Shows a detail of the Madaba map, p. 52. The left overs of a monumental ashlar tower, p. 53.; Short info on Vani in the state of Georgia, Russia.;
Sep 2008, Roman painting of Solomon's judgment of 2 women, found at Pompeii; Small color painting of Pool of Siloam; Krister Stendahl (1921-2008); David Harris, photographer (1929-2008); Image of stalactites in Galilee cave; Hadrian; The Aleppo Codex and Synagogue; Maimonides (1138-1204); Hezekiah's Tunnel; Dead Sea Scroll Stone; Edgar J. Banks (1866-1945); Theodore Feder; Yosef Ofer; Israel Knohl; Lebanon figurines; Suggests the old oak tree north of Hebron is, according to Arab tradition, part of the oaks of Mamre, Genesis 18. Yosef Ofer shows and discusses the `Aleppo Codex' 60 yrs after a riot took place. Only 294 out of 490 pages are complete, plus a few fragments.
Nov 2008, Quality coins with images of Antiochus III, Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV (p. 59).; Color image of oil painting illustrating 2.Maccabees 3 by Bernardo Cavallino, 17th cent., p. 58.; Comments on Salome Alexandra (p. 15).; Image of uncovering the walls of Zio, p. 18.; Obituary Avraham Biran (1909-2008).; Moshe Kochavi (1928-2008).; Bezalel Narkiss (1926-2008).; On the Israelites and Shasu by Rainey.; Hanukkah - Roots of the Maccabean Revolt.; Why milk and meat don't mix. (Ugarit tablet); Mark Twain, J.W. De Forrest, William Cullen Bryant, Bayard Taylor.; Steve Mason, Anson Rainey, Gloria London.; Small bronze figure of Assyrian on a dromedar, p. 88.;

BAR Jan 2009, Gold-Plated Building Stone Found near the Temple Mount; According to this communication "examples of gold-plated building stones were discovered in the excavations at the southern wall of the Temple Mount conducted in the 1960s and 1970s under the overall direction of Prof. Benjamin Mazar and field director Meir Ben-Dov, but they were never published. - BAR has obtained this picture of a gold-coated building stone discovered and photographed by Ben-Dov. This is its first publication. This extraordinary find surfaced for a second time in connection with the ongoing forgery trial in a Jerusalem court (trial is about the `James Ossuary' and the `Ivory Pomegranate Inscription'). . . . The stone excavated near the Temple Mt. is clear evidence that there were gold-covered stones closely associated with the Temple complex. ." [See p. 14.]- - CIAS: What do we learn from this discovery? You cannot always depend on archaeologists when it comes to present data objectively and truthfully. They may withhold critical material and the account here is probably not the only one. Therefore, for all those interested in the archaeology of the Bible Lands, do not make your views on Bible information depended on archaeological reports. At CIAS we show that written data correlate well with biblical accounts and that strata and metal ages are suspect of being misinterpreted and leading to false conclusions. In our opinion, the reason is that strata, pottery and the history of Palestine was so tumultuous that it is next to impossible to assume we know how to interpret in situ pottery and strata evidence correctly. It is an oxymoron to say that the period of King David and Solomon belongs in the time of the 21st Dynasty.
Mar 2009, Joseph Baumgarten (1928-2008) expert on rabbinical law, Douglas Edwards (1950-2008) ; Rachel Hallote, `Who Pays for Excavations,' Eilat Mazar, `The Wall Nehemiah Built,' showing the large and stepped stone structure apparently they say close to which Nehemiah built as illustrated by a drawing, p. 28. Page 29, seals of Jeremiah's opponents, ; Two small bullae: (1) of "Yehuchal {Jehucal of Jucal}ben Shelemyahu {Shelemiah}", said to be from the 1st Temple period strata.; (2) of "Gedalyahu {Gedaliah} ben Pashhur". Both are mentioned as ministers of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah 38:1-13. Good quality color and B&W images provided, p. 29.; See also a scaraboid inscribed as `Shelomit', 1.Chr. 3:19, and Babylonian arrow points as well as inscribed stone weights, p. 33.; Mosaic images of Dura Europa.; Larger layout of the Madaba map, p. 64.
May 2009, `Tracking down Shebnayahu, servant of the king.' Account of Volkmer Fritz finding a jugglet hoard of bullae at Lachish in the 1966-68 season.; Shows an Elephantine papyrus (p. 48) wich is exactly dated to November 25, 404 BC, probably in the evening, according to expert Robert Deutsch of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and not to the 5th cent. BC as stated in the article. (This correction is printed in Nov 09 issue, p. 16.); `Good as His Word,' Jacob manipulates justice; contracts of kings and shepherds. Examples of contract tablets between kings and shepherds had been found at Tell Ali, located along a tributary of the Tigris.; Example: Samsuiluna (conv. dated 1749-1712 BC); enumerates lists of farm animals to Dada the shepherd. Also cites the Code of Hammurabi. Article by Amos Frumkin on `Lot's Wife became a Pillar of Salt' with interesting images of the traditional erosive column and the rocks of the region.
Jul 2009, 200th Anniversary Issue: Gabriel Barkay, `The Riches of Ketef Hinnom', Jerusalem, Judahite Tomb. Text on a rolled up silver foil found there is said to be 400 yrs older than Dead Sea Scrolls. Text #1 reads, ".. ] YHW ... the grea[t God who keeps] the covenant and [G]raciousness towards those who love [him] and those who keep [his commandments ... the Eternal? [...]. [the?] blessing more than any [sna]re and more than Evil. For redemption is in him. For YHWH is our restorer [and] rock. May YWHW bles[s] you and [may he] keep you. [May] YHWH make [his face] shine ..."; Text #2 reads, "... May h[e] sh[e] be blessed by YHWH, the warrior and the rebuker of [E]vil: May YHWH bless you, keep you. May YHWH make his face shine upon you and grant you p[ea]ce." Numbers 6:24-26;
Shows a seal inscribed with the name , "Palta" shortened from `Pelatyahu', dated to the time of Zedekiah (597-586 BC) Ezekiel 11:1,13, last king of Judah before the Babylonian captivity.;
The Jewelry from the end of the first temple period (Ezekiel 16:17) associated with this find is described as unequaled in Jerusalem excavations: More than 100 silver items and six gold items, including simple crescent ear rings, 15 silver earrings, 4 silver finger rings, ca. 50 silver beads, a silver pendant and a scarab mounted in silver. A large number of beads were made of agate, carnelian and rock crystal, then glass, faience and shell. Another fine piece is a silver signet ring bearing the figure of a galloping griffin with a feline body, the heads and wings of an eagle and a coiled tale, all pagan, Satanic symbols warned of by the prophets.; Shows one of the oldest Torah texts, the Abisha Scroll (more than 3000 yrs old?) of the Samaritans (`Shamerim' guardians of the law) at Nablus. Many times visitors are shown a decoy. They claim that Abisha was the great-grandson of Aaron. Scholars dated it to the 12th century AD. It appears to be a patchwork of many scribes over the years. Its oldest texts may be from ca. 300 BC on up.; Issue shows a Babylonian siege tower and arrow heads from the time of Nebuchadnezzar.; Also shows the `Pool of Siloam'and the Nag Hammadi Library and Ashkelon's arched gate, p. 74-76.;
Sep 2009, The Tomb of Ketef Hinnom, located just east of the St. Andrew's Scottish Church and Hospice in Jerusalem; Ketef Hinnom had an old watchtower from the Ottoman period (1516-1917), in the tombs Turkish soldiers left old rifles, pipes and such things.; The issue shows a seal bearing the name "Palta" in strange paleo-Hebrew letters
Nov 2009, Shows the fully restored mosaic floor of Lod, a few miles south of Tel Aviv, which shows animals and marine life as well as fishing and merchant vessels, p. 18; Article and image of the in 439 AD founded rock perched monastery of Mar Saba in the Judean desert SE of Jerusalem. It has Greek Orthodox monks in there.; Shows examples of a `forger's tremor.'; Israel stele.;

BAR, Jan/Feb 2010, Shows gemstone with face of Alexander the Great from Tel Dor, p. 39.; Shows a Roman 2 denarius 3cm diameter coin of emperor Titus, reading, "N or M(?) . . . . . . / RVAGAESAVG ... PMIK . . O . . . . . ." and on the reverse, "FISCI IVDAICI ... CALVMNIA SVBLATA" ... "SC Senatus Consulto". This means that the repeal of the Fiscus Judaicus was done with the consent of the Senate. The Roman military placed their massive forces into Judea. According to Josephus, they consisted of the 5th, 10th and 15th legions plus 23 annexed cohorts, as well as auxiliaries furnished by local kings such as Agrippa and the Arab Malchus. They numbered mor than 600,000 soldiers.[Josephus, The Jewish War, Bk. 3, Ch. iv, Sec. 2, p. 504.]
Another Roman coin reads, "...NAVGTMTR PPP COS .. III .. RMPC ..." and the reverse reads, "JUDAEA CAPTA" which means, `Judea captured.' Other existing coins have writeen, "JUDAEA DEVICTA", which means, `Judea defeated.'
Also shown are `a silver shekel' from the 2nd year of the revolt.; a bronze coin from the 4th year of the revolt reading, "To the redemption of Zion."; a gold coin showing how Simon, son of Giora, a Jewish rebel leader, naked and guarded by a Roman soldier, is led in triumph followed by Vespasian in a chariot and a trumpet blower. The end of Simon is told by Josephus, Jewish Wars, Bk. VII, v, Sec. 6, p. 595.
Article on Solomon and Sheba trade.; Helenism in Jewish Life.; Josephus' account of Herod's Games and a Roman Theater in Tiberias.; Article on `digging deeper', the joy of discovery, which truly may be a joy, but the interpretation depends on once worldview more than on science.
Mar/Apr 2010, Mendel Kaplan (1936-2009); Miriam Tadmor (1926-2009); Dan Barag (1935-2009); New model of ancient Jerusalem temple shown; The face of King Herod II (4 BC - 34 AD) on coins.; Digging (Bronze Age?) Tel Burna (near Gath, Tel es-Safi) - Be aware of the mistaken belief that Iron Age is Biblical and Bronze age not.; Anson Rainey thought Tel Burna was Libnah.; More useless theories on how the alphabet was born.; Architecture: Royal Stoa and Roman Flames, Appearance of apatite on limestone rosettes from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Apatite is the main constituent in bone in its crystalline phase. If it is of human or animal derivation cannot be determined, p. 62.;
Jul/Aug 2010, The first Temple, Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed on the 7th day (2.Kings 25:8) or on the 10th day (Jer. 52:12) of the Hebrew month Ab/Av (Tisha b'Av), which corresponds to our month August, in 586 B.C., and the second Temple, the Herodian Temple was destroyed on the same date (August 29 or 30 {Josephus}, or earlier in that month) in 70 A.D. The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroying Pompeii, Herculanum and Stabia occurred, according to most commentators on August 24 or 25 in 79 A.D. Pliny the Younger describes it to Tacitus. He writes that Pliny the Elder, author of `Historia Naturalis', and commander of the Roman fleet at Misenum when the eruption began, died then. Setting sail to Stabia, all perished during the conflagration from falling ash and debris. The Sibylline Oracles make a connection between the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD and the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The source is Jewish and contains ecstatic sayings from shortly after the Vesuvius event. In Book 4 of these oracles it is written up as if it was a prediction from before the event, they were written after according to the authors (Text available). Another person came back and saw the destruction. With a piece of charcoal he wrote in large, barely visible letters on plaster in Pompeiis House 26, Insula 1, "Sodom Gomoar[rah]." That means people did draw parallels that judgments did take place.
The issue also presents images of Jezreel, the place where Jezebel died, without drawing connections to Nefertiti or indicating that such may exist. See G. Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, Steven W. Werlin, L. Greenspoon, Dever, Rainey, John F. Kutsko, Hanan Eshel (1958-2010), Ronald S. Hendel, Gregg E. Gardner, John C. Trever, Butros Sowmy, Yeshue Samuel, W.F.Albright, L. Stager, B. Mazar, Marvin A. Sweeney, D. Ussishkin
The issue shows (1) the writing on a Sphinx from the book by Joseph Naveh, `Early History of the Alphabet.' (2) The bronze bands with images from Tel Balawat in Iraq. (2) The Nash Papyrus, (3) Isaiah Scroll, (4) Images of Vesuvius and Pompeii, (5) a clay head of Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.

Mar 2003, Info and painted image of the mausoleum of the 4th century BC ruler Maussolos of Caria (a small Anatolian kingdom dependent on Persia) built on Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) in Turkey.; Discoveries in Athens during constructions for the 2004 Olympic Games.; Info on Seti I.; A Roman-British water wheel.; Stone Age(?) death masks.; Villa mosaics.; Rosetta Stone.; Sardinias Bronze Age Nuraghi.; Section of Ramses III sea battles showing horned helmets of Greek soldiers.; Info on Petra.; Ancient Greek bronze gears from a 1st cent. Roman ship wreck off Antikythera, an island NW of Crete.
May 2004, Vol. 7. No. 3; Shows a color photo replica of a Minoan ship, p. 15.; Ingrid D. Rowland, `Etruscan Women', shows wall painting of 7 well dressed Etruscan women with somber, concentrated expressions holding hands like in a march or dance. A map shows Etruscan locations from north to south of Valterra, Murlo, Chiusi, Acquaossa, Vulci, Tarquinia, Cerveteri and Rome.; Milman Perry (1902-1935) analyzing Homeric poetry, `Is Homer historical?,'; Edouard Lartet (1801-1871) discoverer of caves.;
Mar 2005, `When Eg. Queens got elaborate Tombs of their Own', `Among Macedonian Kings'.

Archaeology

Beware of Evolutionistic Presuppositions.

Archaeology Mar 2000, - Articles: The largest ever Roman coin cage, the Shapwick hoard, was discovered in a field by Glastonbury best known as the legendary burial place of King Arthur, by two amateur treasure hunters. The haul comprises 9212 coins, most of which are silver denarii, common coins equivalent to pennies in Roman times. Until currency was decimalized in 1971, "pence" was represented by "d." in abbreviation for denarius. The coins span the period from Mark Antony (31-30 BC) to Severus Alexander (222-235 AD) with the latest coin dating to ca. 224 AD. The earliest coins, which had been in circulation for more than 250 years are inevitably worn, but more than ¾ of the hoard, dating from the late second century AD, are in remarkable condition. There are two exceptions, rare coins which have never been found in Britain before. These depict Manlia Scantilla, the wife of one of the most obscure Roman emperors, Didius Severus Julianus, who in 193 AD bought the throne from the Praetorian Guard after the assassination of the previous emperor, Publius Helvius Pertinax. Julianus had just enough time to issue the coins before he was murdered four weeks later.
The oldest known altar in Chinese state religious practices was unearthed, then reburied, in the city of Xian. Constructed as early as the Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD), it is more than 1000 years earlier then a similar altar in Beijing and is the only one so far predating the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 AD). It is estimated that 17 Chinese emperors conducted religious rites here.
Other Dynasties: 1) They say the Western Zhou Dynasty was from 1050-771 BC.; 2) the warlike, in the stepps horseback riding Liao (Khitan) Dynasty from 907-1125.; 3) Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD).; The Liao dynasty beautifully crafted crown from the tomb of the Princess of Chen and Xiao Shaoju, ca. 1018 AD, is shown in Archaeology, Nov/Dec 2006, p. 48.
A Roman villa was found under the Vatican parking lot.; B&W picture of the 1948 unwrapping of the Elgin marbles from storage are WWII, p. 26.; Color image of the huge drill bit for the subway tunnels of Athens, p. 36-17, image of a map of modern Athens, p. 39.; Marbel sculptured heads of Aristogeiton, Harmodius (tried to assassinate the last tyrant of Athens in 514 BC), philosophers Chrysippos (ca. 280-207 BC) and Zeno (353-263 BC).;
Excavating in Paris yielded the remains and golden jeweled belt buckle, broaches and pins of the Merovingian Period (481-751 AD) Queen Arégonde (born between ca, 520/525 AD-565/570 age ca. 45), who wore a shirt of high quality wool, a decayed dress of silk (violet with indigo), gold embroidered sleeves and a satin veil. According to Gregory de Tours, Historia Francorum, the voluptuary Frankish king Clotaire had married Arégonde, the sister of his wife Ingonde. Estimates are that the wedding took place before the birth of her son Chilperic in 539 AD. It is thought that the Merovingian king Childebert reigned between 511-558 AD. This was an unusually long reign. He was involved in bloody family rivalries against his nephews.; Also shown is the golden parade helmet of King Charles VI (1380-1422) which was found in 155 pieces in the bottom of a well in the Louvre's dungeon.; A map showing Taiwan (T P'en keng submerged structure), Hongkong (Neolithic sandbar sites), Sumatra, the Sunda shelf, Timor (etc.) and West New Guinea on p. 70. Cave locations shown include: Sakai, Gua cha, Gua Kechil, Niah, Upper Mahakam (Borneo) and the Tabon (Palawan) caves.;
Peruvian celestial cycles illustrated, p. 50,51.
Archaeology Sep 2000, - Patricia Bikai (Excav. in Tyre), David Miles, Yu Weichao, Mike Pitts (England), Sharon Long.; Articles: `Arabian Time Capsule';
Archaeology Jul 2001, - Tourist agency image of the temple of Ephesus, Image of the plains at Marathon, Chariots of the Celts, Attacking Malta's past, The golden helmet of Sutton Hoo (England), A Roman shoulder guard, African rhinos pictured inside Chauvet cave, Kanya's ancient ancestors, Celebrating Midas, On the healer's path (Belize plant pharmacology), Windows on the past (African rock art), Scotland's Irish origins (image of the fortress of Dunadd in Argyll), Tribute to a conquering king (Abydos Ahmose battle scenes over the Hyksos), A 1461 battle account.;
Archaeology May 2004, - Kristin Romey, Andrew Lawler, Janet Six, Angela Schuster, Manfred Korfmann, Michael Geer, contemporary painting of Columbus, Elizabeth Peters, Jim Millward.
Archaeology May 2005, - Shows treasures of Tanis, time of Tutankhamon, Sheshonq II.; Shows (inaccurate) Art work by the engraver `de Bry' on Brazilian war clubs and Pacific sea shells; Article on what is described as Neolithic burial mounds at Carnac, France. Also mentioned is `Prisse-la-Charriere.; Article on George Washington's 1776 Hudson River experimental, wooden submarine called the `Turtle.'; Article on the 1920's `dead of Snake Hill.'; Info on King Tut, on Andean archaeology and on the Roman cemetery on the site of the medieval castle at Brougham, England.;
Archaeology October 2005, - Digging again in Lybia after more than 20 years.; The Lavish Anglo-Saxon Prince in SE England who wore a golden buckle.; A Roman razor handle in the shape of a man's leg with thick sock and sandals.; Finds in Guatemala.; Archaeologists find something like a rest house for travelers which existed prior next to the 17th century Tadj Mahal in India.; See the bust of Alexander and a view of Cyrene.; Article on a little village at the foot of Mt. Kasigau, Kenya.; Brief note and color image on ancient fortified structure of time of Genghis Khan(?) on Uighur Island in Lake Tere-Khol/ Ala-kul (ca. Long. 82, Lat. 50).; Same on a fortress at Paramonga (ca. Lg.78, Lt. South 10.5), Peru and the Islamic fortress at Bampur, SE Iran.; Digging up slave towns in Illinois.; The 8th-7th century AD bronze `Strettweg Chariot' on page 50.; Tribal ancient Pueblo Challenges for Navajos.;
Archaeology Jan 2006, - This issue gives well stated accounts that Bethlehem of Judea was where Jesus was born and not the Bethlehem in Galilee. We also learn the name of the first Roman imperial navy officer discovered by archaeologists by the name of Monietus Capito. His 3 foot statue was found by divers by an ancient naval base in Ravenna. The land of Genghis Khan still fascinates people even today. Coming from an obscure valley by the name of Darkhat on the border between Russia and Mongolia and just north of the Selenge River and west of Lake Erkhel. Tsaatan people lived there who spoke Tuvan, a branch of the Turkish language family and Mongolian.; The issue also talks about Jamestown and Pocahontas, the daughter of (a) Powhatan and his town of Werowocomoco (`king's house').; Ancient earthquakes took place between St. Lois, Memphis and Nashville as evidenced by a shown photo of a liquified sand funnel at the Burkett site in SE Missouri.; Another article discusses the Olmec region of southern Mexico around Canton Corralito, Paso de la Amada and El Varal as well as the small pyramids by Ojo de Agua in Chiapa, Mexico.; World Roundup makes reference to, 1) a ferry boat crossing installation from 1863 was found during highway widening at the Combahee River, South Carolina; 2) Carbon dated to ca. 1280 A.D., 3 skulls of lion and leopards were found at the London Tower in the 1930's from a Royal Menagerie bestiary kept in the area by King John; 3) A 36 men, woman and children suspected massacre site was found at the Delta city of Mendes underneath the foundations of a Ramses II temple. The issue also talks about the Clark and Lewis Fort Clatsop, Oregon, Columbia River, 3-5 miles south of Astoria. It was the winter camp site of a 33 member Corps of Discovery from 1805. Features also an article on the Olmec country in southern Mexico at Cantón Corralito and the Carytid Porch at Erechtheion, Athens.
Archaeology Mar 2006, - (a) Shows what is described the oldest Maya writing script of which only the word `ruler' has been identified (without telling how they can be sure). (b) Tells about an 80 foot sunk Chinese cargo ship in 60 feet of water off the coast of Guangdong (ca. 119.5 & 25.5). The early Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 AD) porcelain it carries, some 70,000 artifacts, make its recovery attractive so much so that a salvage ship for its recovery is currently being built. - Presents the history of the ruins of ancient Helenistic, Roman, Byzantine (Christian), Venetian, Ottoman, picturesque Butrint (ca. 20 & 39.1). Shows the 1857 painting by Edward Lear as seen from the Korfiat Hills and the communist Russian ruler Nikita Krushchev (born 1894- Leader 1957-1971) with Albania's xenophobic, most communist regime's leader Enver Hoxha (born 1908- Leader1945-1985) and wife following during a visit in 1959.; American history of the short lived Popham Colony (1607-1608) located at Popham Beach State Park on Sabino Head on the coast of Main. Shows drawn image of Fort St. George and Gilbert Raleigh. They were the first to construct an English style ship to take them back to England.; - Shows mummy investigations of time of Ramses III; archaeology during days of Hitler; image of the Getty Villa museum; Info on the bogus Peking Man;
Archaeology May 2006, - Kathryn Gleason, Fredrik Soreide, Marek Jasinski,; Saqqara emerging in an article on the `City of the Dead', South Carolina's Tooper site where stone tools were found by Al Goodyear, Actually he really doesn't know how or when these were made, they are not more than 4,500 years old.; The issue names members of the `Human Genome Project'. They include: Africans, Europeans, Western Asians, Central & Southern Asian, Eastern Asians, Oceanians, Native Americans . The issue tells how researchers measured the volume of skulls by filling them with mustard seeds.
Archaeology Jul 2006, - Little on a coffin from Cyprus with art work of warriors.; New Orleans after Katrina (2005). Discovered evidence for the extent of a 1794 fire.; Speculative report on a Bosnian pyramid.; Article on a Neolithic(?) 220 foot observatory (or just a fenced village?) near Goseck, eastern Germany, 40 km SW of Leipzig (ca. 11.8 & 51.2) near Weissenfels (Naumburger Str.). Its existence was first seen by aerial photography.; Article on ancient Thailand.; On Kurdish sites.;
Archaeology Winter 2006-07, - Amazing Arborglyphs; New Exhibits: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Historic Jamestowne Archaearium, Utah Museum of Natural History; What is described as an Olmec period stone tablet with perhaps writing on it is shown on page 7.; Fort Edward, State of New York, historical convenience store (existed between 1755/56-1759) discovered. Finds included a 1652 Pinetree shilling.; Nearly 40 ancient Pithouses found in downtown Pheonix, Arizone.; Massive Aztec monolith discovered in Mexico City's Central SquareA `Civil War Confederate Prisoners of War' camp has been found on Johnon's Island in Lake Erie, near Sandusky, Ohio.; The Evolution of Warfare.; Who were the Fremont?; A Man of Many Talents - Artist William Henry Holmes - Oil Painting.; In search of the lost colony.; A Shell Midden spanning thousands of years.; Unusual Adena mound group preserved.; Identifying the Real Mound Builders.; New Preserve offers important data.; Field Notes.;
Archaeology March/April 2007, Who's buried in Paul's tomb?, Such Roman assertions of sitting astride the burial ground of famous apostles are like the Muslim's claiming Abraham built the Kaba providing no proof, just wishful thinking, perpetuating myths and lies in history.; Iran's Bronze Age site of Sharhr-e Sukhteh, the Burnt city.; Article on the Olmecs and their site at La Venta, Tenochtitian, Chalcatzingo, Laguna de los Cerros, San Lorenzo, Palenque and Canton Corralito.; Digging up Roman artifacts at Leicester, England.; Digging up a long lost Spanish mission and a 17th century church off the coast of Georgia. Also the discovery of Nevada's Gatecliff shelter in the Monitor Valley, tauted to be the deepest in North America and exploring Nevada's Reese River Valley. Also finding `Alta Toquina' on the top of 11,000 foot Mr. Jefferson. Finding a 17th century Spanish mission on St. Catherine's Island.; Urn graves on Borneo; Betraying the Maya; The Antikythera Mechanism; Iceland's unwritten saga - Images include: Excavating a sod house, the area of an old farm at Sveigakot, Where forests once stood at Lake Myvatn; Diamond Rush in Brazil where 19th century wildcatters left their marks - Images include: Dry bed near a water fall, the Marimbus Marsh, A simple shelter from the 1840's where an old woman chased her husband with a machete, now a hangout for misanthropes, the former mining town of Lencois; Map of Peru includes cities: Talara, Sullana, Paita, Piura, Iquitos, Moyobamba, Chachapoyas, Chiclayo, Cajamarca, Trujillo, Chimbote, Pucallpa, Huaraz, Huanuco, Huacho, Cerro de Pasco, Lima, Callao, Huancayo, Huancavelica, Pisco, San Martin, Ayacucho, Ica, Abancay, Cuzco, Puerto Maldonado, Nazca, Lago Titicaca, Arequipa, Puno, Moquegua, Tacha Arica.;
Archaeology, Sep/Oct 2008, Vol. 61, No. 5; Etruscan tomb found in Italy by Andrea Marcocci, p. 27-29.; Article on `The Starter Castle' by Eti Bonn-Muller in showing images of Schloß Romrod, and discusses how it looked by 1185 with models and images and by 1260. Shows the influence of Schwellenbau and how it led to Fachwerkbau. The castle is located near Alsfeld, just north of the `Vogelsberg' (at ca. Long. 8.2 Lat. 56.8), north of Frankfurt, Main.
Archaeology, Nov/Dec 2008, Vol. 61, No. 6; Jamestown discoveries including items from Christopher Lawne the first member of the Virginia Assembly; St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans named after Orleans, France; finds like a crucifix and clay pipes may be related to Père Antoine, rector of his church;
Archaeology, May/Jun 2009, Vol. 62, No. 3; The Department of Energy found at the Hartford reactor site the oldest known reactor produced plutonium in a concrete-lined safe. The plutonium was created at a Tennessee reactor in 1944 before it was taken to Hanford. It weighed 15 grains = 0.975 grams.;
It is possible that searchers found a bottle shaped underground, Medeval `oubliette' (Fr. for forgotten place) or dungeon below the Nottingham Galleries of Justice. Perhaps it was used by the sheriff of Nottingham when justice was cruel.;
Article tells of finding the tomb of the Chinese noblewoman Dai at Mawangdui, Hunan Province in her lacquered coffin.
Article tells of the grave of the first governor of Bermuda having been located in a narrow space underneath his office. His name was George James Bruere, identified by a copper coffin plate, of the 1775 gunpowder plot fame.; Other articles tell of the Nasca lines in South America, and how 20 Roman soldiers may have died in a narrow tunnel at Dura-Europos, by inhaling the fumes of burning sulfur and pitch.

Archaeology, Current World Arch., Vol. 3, Aug/Sep 2008.; Images on Copán in Mesoamerica, reconstructed by Tartiana Proskouriakoff, p. 18.; Discusses the city of Sweyhat, northern Syria by M.D. Damti & Wm. B. Hafford.;
Archaeology, Current World Arch., Vol. 3, Oct/Dec 2008.; Reports about Roman forts in the Lybian desert: El Deir and Umm el-Dabadib, 300 - 400 AD; located 125 miles west of Luxor near Kharga.; Kharga valley is about 100 miles long and between 20 to 60 miles wide., Source of wheat, barley; minerals like alum and ocher.; A text of Ramses II states he had some of this mineral wealth transported to the Nile Valley from the Dakhla Oasis via Kharga to Luxor.; Hieroglyphic inscription of ca. 200 BC to 100 AD found at Muhammed Tubaib.;

Books

Manolis Andronicos in `The Adventure of Archaeology', p. 317.
Hiram Bingham, Ibid., p. 148.
Jens Jacob Worssaae, 1st professional archaeologist (drawing), Ibid., p. 100.
Margaret Rule, England, Ibid. p. 293.

Articles by Authors on archaeology not or rarely found in magazines.
Claude Francis A. Schaeffer (1898-1982);
Edouard Dhorme (1881-1966);
Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968);
Bedrich Hrozny (1879-1952);

KMT

KMT Summer 1996, (1) `German Egyptian Splendors,' p. 12-18.; (2) `The 2nd Mysterious Dynasty,' p. 19-31.; (3) `Tomb of Qar at Abusir South,' p. 32-39.; (4) `Yuya's Mummy Mask,' p. 40-45.; (5) `Relief Fragments from the Temple of Thut. III at Deir el-Bahari,' p. 46-51. (6) `19th Cent. Thebes Tomb Dwelling,'; Archaeology of Reisner,' p. 60-75; Sir John Garner Wilkinson, Robert Hay, George Andrew Reisner, Hans Martin Hendrick, Francis Allen, Nicholas Melnikoff, Mohammed Said Ahmed, Horatio Herbert Lord Kitchener, Gaston Maspero, Georg Steindorff, David George Hogarth, Ernesto Schiaparelli.; Images: Thutmose I, Hildesheim painted limestone relief, 2nd dynasty section of the Palermo Stone (p. 23), tomb of Peribsen, painted relief of a 6th dynasty judge named Qar and his tomb, Yuyas gold mummy mask, relief fragments from the temple of Thutmose III at Deir el Bahari, the Mycerinus pair statue exposed in Jan. 19, 1910, head of Menkaure.;
KMT Summer 1999, (1) Mohammed Saleh, `On Recovered Art Treasures', p. 18-24; (2) `Antiquities Report,' Jean Phillipe Lauer, p. 25-41.; (3) `Tanis - Ghost Capital',. 42-49. The face of Ramses II at Tanis.; The recovery of a head and crown of Ramses II from the Ramses II temple at El Sebua, Nubia.'; (4) `Concept of Family,'; (5) `ProPylon of Khonsu at Karnak,' p. 56-65.; (6) `Homes of the Nobles at Akhetaten.'; Protecting the past;.
KMT Fall 1999, (1) `KV55'; p. 18-19.; (2) `KV42,' p. 20-33.; (3) `New Kingdom Necropolis of Dahshur,' p. 36-43.; (4) `Nubia Museum at Aswan.' p. 44-51.; (5) On `Hapi,' p. 52-55.; (6) Funerary things.; (7) `A Peculiar Inlaid Relief at Medinet Habu,' p. 64-67.; Reverend Archibald H. Sayce.
KMT Winter 1999-2000, Articles: (1) `Egyptian Old Kingdom Art,' p. 18-31; includes statues of Ankh (3rd Dyn); Djedefre (4th Dyn); Menkaur & Queen (4th Dyn.); Nikare (5th Dyn.); Pepi (6th Dyn.); (2) `Pharaoh Akhenaten,' includes talatat image of Nefertiti (Jezebel) (p. 35) and her unfinished Berlin limestone bust (p. 37) which is not the same as her famous colored bust at Berlin.; p. 47, limestone pair from Sakkara of Maya & wife Meryt.; (2) Chicago Oriental Institute Museum: p. 48-55.; Includes a readable image of the `Stela of Harsiese' and `Ramose,'; A polychrome glazed plaque from Ramses III, Medinet Habu; (3) `The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut & Thutmoses III. (Open Air Museum at Karnak), p. 56-71; (4) `Valley of the Gilded Mummies,' p. 72-85.;
KMT (1) Spring 2000, Articles on mummification.; (2) `Some Problems with the Chronology of Thuitmoses III,' p. 50-59.; Basically on chronology and the age when successor was born.; (3) `How tall was Thutmoses III?'; (4) `Pictorial of Medinet Habu', p. 66-69; (5) `Temple of Edfu', p. 72-83.;
KMT Summer 2000, (1) `Roman Period Egypt,' p. 18-29; (2) `The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 30-41.; (3) `Ta Set Neferu - Valley of Queens,' p. 42-55.; (4) `Thutmose II', p. 62-75.; Dr. Robert Rittner, Dr. Kent Weeks, Dr. Mark Lehner, Theodore M. Davis, Bob Brier.; Articles: `Ta Set Neferu'(Valley of the Queens), `Khonsu'; Images: Canopic lid and ushabti of early 19th dyn. Queen Tuy, A painted amphora showing `Prancing horses' from QV18, Cap of a scepter with the name of Thutmose II.; Interior of QV44, tomb of Khamwaset and QV55, tomb of Prince Amenhirkopshef, Canopic jars from QV11, Head of Akheperenre Djehutymes (Thutmose II) (p. 62, 64-73);
KMT Fall 2000, (1) `Meyes Eton College Collection,' p. 18-31.; (2) `A 17th Dynasty Egyptian Queen,'p. 32-40.; (3) `Thutmose IV's Portico Court at Karnak,' p.42-47.; (4) `The Serapeum,' p. 48-53.; (5) Natural Forms and Translations of Ancient Egyptian Architecture,' p. 54-59.; (6) The 25th Dynasty, p. 60-66.; (7) 19th to 20th Century Tourists in Egypt, p. 70-81.;
KMT Winter 2000/01, (1) On Mummies; (2) Siegmund Freud Collection.; (3) `Pyramid of 12th Dyn Neferuptah'; (4) On `Ahmose or Amenhotep I,' p. 50-60.; (5) On KV16, Ramses I., p. 62-75.; (6) Medicin in Egypt; Zaki Iskander.
Fall 2000, Mark Lehnert, Dr. Kent Weeks, Dr. Robert Ritner, Major William Joseph Myers, Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, travel agent (1869) Thomas Cook, George Herbert Carnarvon.
KMT Spring 2001, (1) `British Museum Items,' p. 20-35.; (2) Virtual `Tomb of Sennedjem,' p. 46-59.; (3) `Funerary Enclosures,' p. 60-72.; (4) `Hathor;' William Joseph (Bill) Murnane, granite seated statue of 3rd dyn. shipbuilder Ankhwa, Edward Libby on top of a camel, James E. Quibell.
Articles: The computer aided unfolding of the tomb of Sennedjem, his wife Iyneferty, their children and grandchildren, (TT1).; Funerary enclosures - Early dynastic `forts' re-examined.; The Quibbels at El Kab, ca. 1899;
KMT Summer 2001, Georges Daressy (1864-1938), Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864) and his paintings.; Articles: on Horemheb, God's Wives of Amen.; Images: grano-diorite statue of 12th dyn. Amenemhet IV (p. 27), side-view of the head of the mummy of Yuya and the younger lady, sideview of Nefertiti and mummy 61070.;
KMT Fall 2001, Zahi Hawass, Kent Weeks, Mark Lehner, David Silverman, Salim Ikram, Jean-Philippe Lauer.
KMT Winter 2001/02, On animal mummies; (1) `The Electrum Ring of Nefertiti,' p. 26-28.; (2) `Mutnodjmet,' p. 32-41.; (3) `Ramses III', p. 42-52.; Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), Had to do with the discovery of the Nefertiti bust Friday, Dec. 6, 1912, and how he tricked it out of Egypt to Berlin.; Sigmund Freud, Zaki Iskander.
KMT Spring 2002, (1) The Czech Institute's 10 Years of Excavations at Abusir South, p. 18-28.; (2) Quesna, New Delta Site Yields Burial (30th dyn level), p. 30-35.; (3) Old Kingdom Master Works, p. 36-43, Shows a 6th dynasty false door of Senwehem from his Giza Tomb, G2132.; (4) The Rijksmuseum at Leiden, Holland, p. 44-53.; (5) Egypt in Greece, p. 55-61.; (6) `Tutankhamen,' p. 62-66.; (7) Spanish Lashings in Egypt, p. 67-70; (8) The Discovery of Hatshepsut's Throne, p. 71-77.;
KMT Spring 2003, (1) Images of Egypt, a) Hatshepsut's Deir el Bahari; b) 5th dyn. Pyramid of Djedkare, Sakkara; c) Red Chapel., p. 19-33; (2) The Colossi of Memnon, p. 34-43.; (3) 5th Dynasty Abusir, p. 44-57,; (4) `Injuries in the Battle of Kadesh,' p. 58-65.; (5) 19th Century Luxor, p. 66-75.;
KMT Summer 2003, (1) `Brooklyn Museum of Art,' p. 16-27.; (2) `Theban Tomb of Rekhmire' closeup, p. 28-44.; (3) `Museum of Atlanta,' p. 45-51.; (4) Pyramid Tombs of Tanutamen,' p. 53-63.; (5) Nubia according to Wm. J. Banks, p. 64-69.; Norman de Garis Davies, Harry Burton.
KMT Fall 2003, (1) Duelling `Nefertitis' (compares younger & older ladies mummies, inconclusive), p. 22-29.; (2) KV35 Discovery Retold, p. 31-38.; (3) Dr. Anderson's (1799-????) Mummy, p. 39-46.; (4) The Naples Museum, p. 47-53.; (5) Women of the House of Tao, p. 54-65.; (6) The Philae Temple, p. 66-79.; Victor Loret.;
KMT Winter 2003/04, (1) `Fine Arts Museum of Boston,' p. 22-33. See Old Kingdom objects.; (2) `Sphinces in St. Petersburg, Russia,' p. 34-41.; (3) `Pharaoh's Daughter & Her Hebrew Adopted Son,' p. 42-51., Using conventional chronology he opts unfortunately for 18th Dynasty Amenhotep I to be the candidate identifying the Israelites as the Hyksos.; (4) `Where was Amenhotep I burried?', Having chosen Amenhotep I as the Pharaoh of the Exodus, he wants to know where he was burried, finds 3 possible candidates., p. 54-70; (5) Breastedt, Recording Nubia,' p. 72-78.; James F. Romano (1947-2003), Ahmed Youssef (restorer), Henry Breastedt, wife Frances and 8 year ols son Charles.; Images: A drawn map on how to get to tomb AN-B at Dra Abu el-Nagar, p. 62.; Detail of the limestone and wood figures of Tjetey, a painted limestone block from the Giza tomb of Nekebu, a portion of Queen Hetepheres bed canopy with the cartouche of Sneferu.; Images of Sphinxes, Breastedt's Chicago team measuring the colossus of Ramses II (p. 75);: Articles: Omar Zuhdi, `Pharaoh's Daughter and her Hebrew Adopted Son';
KMT Spring 2004, (1) `Egypt Open Air Museum Updates from 2003,' Images of Luxor, assembling blocks, dismantled Thut. II. blocks, Red Chapel, Thut. III temple complicated reconstruction, p. 19-33.; (2) Turin's Museo Egizio,' p. 34-47.; (3) Narmer Palette, p. 48-54.; (4) Royal Fratricedes'; Winifred Brunton, painter of the pharaohs and their queens including Nefertiti.
KMT Summer 2004, (1) `Mentropolitan Museum of Art,' p. 22-35.; (2) `Florence Museum,' p. 36-45.; (3) Old Kingdom Royal Family Tombs,' p. 47-55.; (4) `The Egyptian Blue Water Lilie,' p. 57-63.; (5) `Belzoni at Abu Simbel,' p. 68-82.; Frank Yurco, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) drawing.
KMT Fall 2004, (1) `Luxor Museum', Chariot of Tutankhamon, (2) Philadelphia Museum, p. 34-47; (3) Royal Mummies Cage DB320 Inventory', p. 38-63.; (4) Sandstone Quarries at Gebel el Silsila,' p. 64-75.; (5) Images of Sara Yorke Stevenson, Flinders Petrie, Gaston Maspero, Emile Brugsch, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Heinrich Brugsch.; Shows a false door of the tomb chapel of 5th dyn. Kaipura at Sakkara, p. 39.
KMT Spring 2005, (1) `Recent Discoveries at Akhmim,' p. 18-23.; (2) `Royal Families Tombs, Part II, Middle Kingdom', p. 24-32.; (2) `Tutankhamen's Perplexing Funerary Gift Cacite Barque,' p. 34-39.; (3) On KV19, `Tomb of Prince Montuhirkopshef (son of Ramses IX),' p. 40-53.; (4) On Eunuchs and Priests, p. 54-63.; (5) `The Others' - Egypt's neighbors portrayed, p. 66-73.; (6) `Journeys of Count Harkhuf,' p. 74-80.; Dominic Montserrat, Margaret Murray, Dr. John Cameron, Ahmed Kamal.
KMT Fall 2005, David Moyer, Dennis C. Forbes, James P. Allen, Peter Lacovara, Sally MacDonald, Peter Der Manuelian, George A. Reisner. Images of Hatshepsut Exhibit: 1) The reconstructed limestone sphinx from Deir el Bahari, 1920's; 2). Head detail of a life size red granite statue; 3) 9 foot high kneeling red granite statue in male disguise holding a global vessel in each hand; 4) From head to knee red granite colossal statue; 5) red granite mortuary temple kneeling statue; 6) two fine inscribed calcite unquent vessels and lids bearing the cartouche of Hathsepsut; 7) seven gold rimmed vessels (one of which bears the cartouche of Thutmose III) and lidded jars of calcite, faience and hard stone; 8) two beaded collars of gold and semi precious stones; 9) sheet gold funerary pair of sandals and a collar; 10) fine, undamaged detail of a sunk relief portrait from her pyramidion; 11) a B&W image of her divine conception; 12) her being pregnant; 13) another divine birth scene with her newborn prince and ka; 14) a drawing of Thutmose I introducing a khepresh-crowned Hatshepsut; 15) Hatshepsut as the Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Thutmose II; 16) detail of her wearing a queens modius and being offered `Life & Authority'; 17) wearing kingly regalia and crowns but in female attire and form; 18) detail images from her obelisk - a) 3 images: Hatshepsut seated in kingly regalia and crown in male form; b) Hatshepsut and Thutmose III as coregents; 18) a Red Chapel block depicting her dual obelisks; 19) the upper half of her obelisk; 20) details from Deir el Bahari: 21 images, #11 shows a walking lion; 21) the red quartzite canopic chest and her sarcophagus; 22) five images of her tomb tunnels; 23) a small ivory casket which may have had her liver or spleen inside.; p. 45 shows a section of the Edwin Smith (medical) Papyrus.; Items of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC: p. 48-58, a selection of artistic vases one dated to the supposed early-predynastic Amratian or Naqada I periods (conv. 42--3700 BC).; three stone vessels dated conv. 3700-3100 BC; one stone vase to the Late Gerzean or Naqada II/III period (3700-3100); and two faience items from Ptolemaic times.; Items of the UCL Petrie Museum: p. 59- 67.; Article on `Virtual Pyramids - Giza Archives Project; p. 68-80. Includes images of Reisener, the Menkaure Pyramid Temple and his triads, 1908 (This project has converted 21,000 glass plate negative images to digital format.); p. 72,73 shows 2 aerial views of the eastern and western cemetery at Giza taken from the top of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, plus images of the Virtual `Giza Archives Project' website including the virtually repositioned, readable `Stela of Wepemnefret (G1201).
KMT Winter 2005/06, Dr. Wafaa El Saddik, Director Egyptian Museum in Cairo, KMT Staff: Dennis C. Forbes, Michael Kuhlmann, Dr. Salima Ikram, David Moyer, George Johnson, Dr. Aidan Dodson, Omar Zuhdi, Greg Reeder.
KMT Spring 2006, (1) `The Mummies at the Cairo Museum,' p. 20-28.; (2) Vatican Museum, p. 30-39.; (3) `The Intermediate and Late Period,'Dyn 26, p. 40-47.; (4) `On Merneptah,' p. 48-63.; (5) `At Musawwarat es Sufra & Naqa in Nubia,' p. 64-75.; Pope Julius II (1503-1513), Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846), Dr. Francesco Buranelli, `The Lion Temples', Eduardo Vilela.
KMT Spring 2007, KV63 Update: A newly (end of 1992 by Otto J. Schaden) discovered tomb containing 10 coffins whose occupants are unknown., Coffin E contained elaborate floral collars, an amphora fragment with hieratic writing is shown, reading: "Year 5, wine with Tjaru; month 1 + day 15. One was in [...]; to/for Paherypedjet of Tjaru.", Also found was a sherd with hieratic writing, reading: "District of Tjaru." Tjaru is in the east Delta/Sinai area; The district of Tjaru is ca. 30 miles south of Assiut, therefore these tomb vessels held products from outside the Theban area.; KV63 contained 7 sarcophagi (A-G, one miniature) of various sizes (all empty but filled with mummyfication items), 28 storage jars virtually identical to those of KV54 (King Tut's, also KV62).;
The new 30th Dynasty Imhotep Museum, Images include: 3rd dynasty statue base of Djoser showing his feet, a scribe statue of Ptahshepses, Atjema and Ptahhotep, the most beautiful Graeco-Roman painted mummy of the world, Vitrine with the 30th dynasty coffin of Imhotep is shown, as well as the mummy of 6th dynasty king Menenre. - The High Priest of Mut Amenemopet & wife, objects from the pyramid complexes of Pepi I, Ankhesenpepi II & III and that of 18th dynasty individual Aperel. Of interest is the recognizable hieroglyphic pyramid text slab of Pepi I.; The Qurna/Kurna Temple of Seti; Tutankamon's missing ribs; What's in the Birmingham Museum, The Pharaoh's Apiaries for bees.;
KMT Summer 2007, (1) `Nefer - Women in Egypt,' p. 20-31.; (2) `Work of the Egypt Exploration Society (1882-2007) in Egypt,' p. 32-44.; (3) `Embalming Caches,' p. 46-53.; (4) `Crumbling Reliefs of the Chapel of Osiris at Karnak of the 3rd intermediate Period,' p. 54-65.; (5) On Mummies, etc., p. 66-78.; (5) Things in the Ohio Museum, p. 79-81.
This issue also shows an inscribed false door (#3513) of Inba at Sakkara (p. 58), the sandstone ushabti of 18th dynasty Amenhotep, viceroy of Kush, p. 59; The bee-keeping scene in the Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), that of 26th dyn. Pabasa (TT279) of West Luxor, that of 26th dyn. Ankhhor (TT414), p. 67-69, and the unpublished depiction of Queen Ahmes-Nefertari as the god's wife on a dismantled block from a monument of Amenhotep I. in the south blockyard at Karnak, p. 83,88.
KMT Fall 2007, Articles: (1) `The Scientific Search for the Mummy of Hatshepsut,' p. 20-25; (2) `Egypt in Milan,' p. 26-35; p. 29, Image of Luigi Vassalli and his excavation of Medinat Habu (1935-37); p. 31, image of the seated statue Amenemhat III (one of only two in existence); (3) `The Funerary Monuments of Amenhotep III'; image of the dedication stela of Amenhotep at Kom el Hettan plus his Colossi.; (4) p. 42-xx, article and images of Merneptah having quarried 18th dynasty monuments to build his own, which supports our revised view that the 19th Dynasty did not follow the 18th.; (5) `Thutmose III crosses the Euphrates,' showing the facial types of the enemies he encountered.; (6) `London's Crystal Palace,' p. 65-74.;
KMT Spring 2009, Articles: (1) `French-Egyptian Excavations at the Opet Temple Karnak', shows glyph of a horse, p. 43; (2) `Temple of Khonsu Karnak', shows cartouche of Darius, p. 54. 5(3) `Under Disc & Crescent' (Khonsu related pectoral of Tut), (4) `History of TT55 of Ramose .. Workmanship,' (5) `Oases'.; Shows images of the fort of Ain Labeka, the Roman fortress El Deir, early Christian tomb chapels at Bagawat (Kharga). Ruins of the Old Kingdom town of Ain Asil (Dakhla), a mastaba of Medunefer; a stela & obelieks from tomb of Pepyima II & a stela of Khentika found at Balat.
KMT Summer 2009, Articles: `Nefertiti's Final Secret', p. 18-28; Shows many images and talks about a possible sureptitious exchange of the limestone head with another perpetrated apparently by Ludwig Borchardt and aided by Egyptian workers.; Also shows image of Gustave Lefebvre, p. 20; Nefertiti's bust was excavated December 6, 1912.; Article on the tomb of `Nehamun', TT17, p. 32 with image of Alfred Wiedemann (1856-1937); Has the color image of the bearded Siamen of his tomb in the western oasis of Siwa, p. 58.;
KMT Fall 2009, More on KV63; Ushabtis of King Taharqa; Were Nefertiti & Tutankhamen Coregents?; Symbolism in the Decoration of King Ay's Tomb (WV23); Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934); Egyptian Antiquities in Lisbon;

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)
Some of these articles are quite dated but may still be of historical interest.

[No authors named to save on time and space. Late period topics not noted.]

Feb 1920, No. 2; The Jewish inscription from Ain-Duk; Map of Bethany;
BASOR Jan 1922; Minutes of meetings and reports;
May 1922, Excavation of Tell El-Ful (`Mound of the bean', Gibeah); Gibeah of Saul and Benjamin; Excavations of Ascalon;
Oct 1922, Excavation of El-Ful;
Dec 1922, Reverend James B. Nies; Reports;
BASOR Feb 1923, Image of the Ziggurat at Tell Ohemir, ancient Kish, p. 5; Gibeah and Shiloh excavations;
Apr 1923, Image of the Early Iron tumulus of Malhah near Jerusalem;
Oct 1923, 18 day, 6 horses and 4 pack-animals Arch and Topographical trip through Palestine from Jerusalem, Jifnah (Gophna), Bir ez Zeit, Abbud, T. Nasbeh (Mizpah?/Beeroth? near Ramah and Gittaim), Tibneh (Timnath-serah, home of Joshua); The nation of Gilgal; Tell el-Asawir (ancient Yaham); Tell Arah (ancient Aron-Aros);
Dec 1923, reports;
BASOR Feb 1924, Images: Antoine Thomas Gelat; Ancient Kedesh on the Orontes; T. Homs (Emesa); El Hatra;
Apr 1924, Images: table of offerings of a Moabite temple at Ader; the ruined sugar mills of medieval Zoar;
Oct 1924, reports;
Dec 1924, reports;
BASOR Feb 1925, Images: 2 Ford cars on a trip from Beyrot to Bagdad - break down in the desert; remains of southern city wall of Eltekeh (Kh. Mukenna); mount of Sheikh Ahmed el-Areini or T. el-Menshiyeh (anc. Gath?);
Apr 1925, Images: Tar Khelan's (near Kirkuk) biggest and smallest brick and views; Engedi and Masada;
Oct 1925, Albert T. Clay; Bronze Age mounds of Palestine; Images: Source of Jordan at Tell el-Qadi, memorial niche at Banias; large dolmen near T. ej-Jabieh in northern Jolan; T. Sheikh Sa'd, T. Ashtarah, T. el-Ash'ari, T. ed-Damich;
Dec 1925, reports;
BASOR Feb 1926, Images: Phoenician monuments at Amrit; T. ej-Jamus in the Eleutherus Valley vicinity of ancient Sumur; EB city wall at T. Tuqn; The old mound of Khalab (Aleppo) with the great mosque in the foreground; EA vase from T. es-Semn; stones from T. el-Biya; the Khabur at T. es-Suwar; T. el-Madquq; the minaret of anc. Anat;
Apr 1926, Images: the Bagdad museum; 5th cent. church at Kasr el-Banaat near Antioch;
Oct 1926, Images: T. Beit Mirsim; the supposed high place at Kirjath-sepher; Warka images, including a brick wit Ur-Ninurta inscription;
Dec 1926, reports;
BASOR Feb 1927, Images: ancient wall exposed in street in front of BASOR's school in Jerusalem;
Apr 1927, Images: Br. age city wall at T. en-Nasbeh;
Oct 1927, Images: The pre-Constantinian church at Amwas;Survey SW of Kirkuk;
Dec 1927, reports; Images: Maude Bridge, Bagdad; the arch of Ctesiphon; the mound at Kirkuk; the aeneolithic mound of Para-Para, Kirkuk area.;
BASOR Feb 1928, Images: The cave of Mugharet ez-Zuttiyeh near Tabghah; the plain NE of hazor with Lake Huleh and Mt. Hermon; a section of the Br. Age wall of Madon; the bluff above the robbers' cave near Qrun Hattin; A trial excavation at the mound of Bethel; A Kurdish chieftain mounted on a horse with a rifle;
Apr 1928, Images: Aerial view of Yargon Tepa; Basilica at Amman; a temple at Jerash;
Oct 1928, Images: Tents for the 2nd campaign at T. Beit Mirsim, 6 scarabs; William Hayes Ward; Progress at Beth Shemesh;
Dec 1928, reports;
BASOR Feb 1929, Images: Amphorae at the cemetery of Beth-Shemesh; LBA vessels;
Apr 1929, Images: The leaning minaret of Mosul; Excav. at Yorgan Teppe;
Oct. 1929, Images: The mound and wall remains of Irbit, Israel; Dolmen near Kefr Yuba in eastern Gilead; a Br. Age wall at Ham; Oak forest in central Gilead, north of the Jabbok Valley; C.C. McCown;
Dec 1929, reports;
BASOR Feb 1930, Images: ASOR school view toward the Mt. of Olives; synagogue excav. in view of Mt. Gilboa;
Apr 1930, Images: 3rd campaign of Beit Mirsim;
Oct 1930, Images: Trip fr. Jerus. to Jericho, Wadi kelt to T. Abu Alaik decapolis area; Cont. of April report; SE corner stones wall at Qasr el-Abd; Qasr el-Malfuf; Valley view with Roman road, exped. tent at Ain Yajuz; Kh. Khau and Roman milestone; Dolmen and buildings near Medwar Nol; Climbing Umm ed-Daraj between Jerash and Ajlun; Mar Elyas seen from Lisdib;
Dec 1930, Images: 1st campaign to Jerash;
BASOR Feb 1931, Images: Crusader castle at Athlit; El-Deir, Petra; Jerash; Hurrian pottery; railway station built of Ashurnasirpal bricks;
Oct 1938, First campaign at Tell El-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber); Joint expedition to Mesopotamia; Cuneiform tablets from Tell Billa; Lachish notes;
Dec 1938, Topography and History of Ezion-Geber and Elath; The Nuzi tablets solve a puzzle in the book of Samuel (1.Sam. 1:24, `with three bullocks' or `three year old bullock')(the consonantal signs `prmšlš' resolved wrongly into `pârîm š'lôšã' instead of `pâr m'šullâš'); 2 letters from Ugarit; Letter from Jerusalem;
BASOR Feb 1939, A Hebrew letter from 1200 BC; Reexamination of the Lachish letters;
Apr 1939, Bronze swords from Luristan; Israelite conquest of Canaan and archaeology;
Oct 1939, 2nd campaign at Ezion-Geber; The earliest history of Jerash;
Dec 1939, Tarsus sherd with birds; Reports;
BASOR Feb 1940, Excavations at Alalakh, Ugarit;
Apr 1940, Megiddo and the song of Deborah;
Oct 1940, 3rd campaign at Ezion-Geber;
Dec 1940, Ostraca from Elath; Lachish Ostraca;
BASOR Feb 1941, A Samaritan inscription (on file); New light on the walls of Jerusalem in the NT age; Nuzi geographical names II; New Egyptian data on Palestine in the Patriarchial age;
Apr 1941, Ostraca from Elath; Ostracon No. 6043 from Ezion Geber; The seal from the reign of Ahaz again; The Lachish letters after 5 years; The cistern groups from Tell En-Nasbeh; Two letters from Ugarit (Here);
Oct 1941, The 3rd wall of Jerusalem; The Nabatean sanctuary at Gerasa; New light on the early history of Phoenician colonization, Image: Archaic Phoenician inscr. from Cyprus (on file); Greek pottery from tell En-Nasbeh; The Canaanite term for `Free Proletarian'; Are the ephod and the teraphim mentioned in Ugaritic literature?;
Dec 1941, The Beit El-Ma Samaritan inscription, A synagogue at Elath?, The towers and cisterns of the 3rd wall of Jerusalem, The Egyptian-Canaanite deity Hauron, Did Anath fight the dragon, Anath and the dragon, A note on the seal of the servant of Ahaz;
BASOR Feb 1942, Nabatean Syria, The script of ostracon 6043 from Ezion-Geber, The Shibboleth incident of Judges 12:6.; The Exodus and the settlement in Canaan, Speiser's introduction to Hurrian;
Apr 1942, Preliminary report on soundings in pre-historic caves in Palestine, Observations on the date of the pottery bearing stratum of Mugharet Abu Usba, Further explorations in eastern Palestine - Small B&W images of: Khirbet Mafraq and its Menhire circle (p. 15); Roman-Byzantine settlement of Mesar Tokh, p. 16, photo 1330 showing Wadi Jerash, tributary to Wadi Zerqa; Khirbet Abu Harasi, photo 1334; Tell Ya'amun, photo 1337; Muntar Yarin, photo 1339; On some stamps and a seal from Lachish, A teacher to a man of Shechem, Two misunderstood items in the Exodus-conquest cycle - (of no real chronological help because at this time Ramses II was still seen as pharaoh of the Exodus and apparently none knew of Nuweiba beach landbridge);
Oct 1942, Some early Jewish architectural vestiges from Jerash, Tombs of the early 2nd millennium from Baghuz on the middle Euphrates, A votive stele erected by Ben-Hadad I of Damascus to the God Melcarth/Melqart, The Phoenician god satraps, The word Shibboleth again;
BASOR Feb 1943, Jabesh-Gilead by Nelson Glueck - on the examination of Wadi Yabis from Kerkemeh (not Carchemish) westward (east of the Jordan), Nelson identifies the site of Meqbereh as Jabesh-Gilead, located about 15 km SE of Beisan immediately north of Wadi Yabis and 6 ½ miles SW of Pella (Tabaqat Fahil). He identifies Khirbet Ibziq with Bezek.; Two little understood Amarna letters from the middle Jordan valley, The NW line of the 3rd wall of Jerusalem, Further observations on the chronology of Mugharet Abu Usba, Free artisans and slaves in Mesopotamia, An archaic Hebrew Proverb in an Amarna Letter from central Palestine (EA#);
Apr 1943, - Three Israelite towns in the Jordan valley Zarethan, Succoth, Zaphon (all located south of Pella and just east of the Jordan, drawn map provided), Four Syrian Cylinder seals, An Egyptian type copper dagger of the MB age in Baltimore, Some notes on the stele of Ben-Hadad, The copper spatula of Byblos and Proverbs 18:18;
Oct 1943, - Some ancient towns in the plains of Moab, Where was Asophon?, Some 16th century copper objects from Tell Beit Mirsim (includes several photomicrographs) of ax and mace heads, Assyrological Gleanings, The furniture of El in Canaanite mythology;
Dec 1943, - Ramoth-Gilead by N. Glueck, Images: Tell Ramith, The Gezer calender, A tablet of the Amarna age from Gezer (short text),
BASOR Feb 1944, - `Ancient Oriental Seals in the Redpath Library', 1) & 2) dark steatite Egyptian seal dated to the protodynastic period. Author takes issue with Petrie's fanciful reading of the signs saying they were not seals but amulets and not necessarily meant to be read. See Ancient Egypt, 1914, p. 71, No. 43 (an inaccurate drawing). 3) A cream marble seal from Uruk, shows a stag with 14 prong long antlers and two bearded mountain goats with long curved horns. 5) said to come from Niniveh but interpreted to belong to the Early Dynastic III period. 7) & 8) Steatite and black basalt; A fine seal attributed to the 3rd Dynasty of Ur. 9) Grey chert; Judged to be Assyrian of the 9th century. 10) Chalcedony; Assyrian of 800 to 612 BC.
Apr 1944, - Article on `The Death of Gilgamesh', p. 2-12.
Dec 1944, A Sumerian list of Literary compositions compiled about 2000 BC, The 2 pillars before the temple of Solomon [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.], A 3rd revision of the early chronology of western Asia, Extracts from a report of archaeological progress in Palestine;
Oct 1945, - Image of Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (1880-1945).
BASOR Feb 1947, - `Second Interim Report on Work in the Museum at Istanbul'; Shows the image of the very damaged obverse of the Inanna - Shukallituda tablet an the obverse of the very damaged eight-column Emesh - Enten tablet.; Contains the Topographical Index to the Bulletins, Nos. 71-100.;
Apr 1947, - `Some rare coins from Transjordan', coin of Rabbel and Hagiru, early coin of Gerasa and a number of additional coins.; `On the technique of the Khirbet Kerak ware'.;
Oct 1947, - Warren Joseph Moulton.; `Assyrian Gleanings IV'; `A Composite Bow of the Canaanite Goddess Anath'; `Nuzi Seal Impressions'.
Dec 1947, - Not very helpful `Notes on Amos 5:26 and Deut. 33:26';
BASOR Feb 1948, - `Exploring the Sinai with the Univ. of California African Exped.', shows the Merkhah Bay south of Abu Zeneimeh, with the Egyptian embarkation point in the background.', shows Dr. Henry Field, Mrs. W.B. Terry and Wendell Phillips' behind a row of skulls they were measuring. (A reminder how `racism' and `eugenics' as a consequence of evolutionary beliefs began to influence archaeologists.)
Apr 1948, - `The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Sinai and Their Decipherment'; `A Mimyarite Bronze Tablet'.
Oct 1948, - `Preliminary Observations on the Jerusalem Scrolls' (Isiaiah, the Sectarian Document, the Habbakuk Commentary, an unidentified 4th scroll.; `An Aramaic contemporary of the Lachish Letters'.
Dec. 1948, - `The Jerusalem Habbakuk Scroll'.
BASOR Feb 1949, - `The Paleographic Study of the Jersalem Scrolls'.
Apr 1948, - `Excavation of the Manuscript Cage at Ain Fashkha'.
Oct 1949, - James Allan Montgomery.; `Identification (and date) of the Aramaic 4th Scroll from Ain Feshkha' and the Nash Papyrus.
Dec 1949, - `The so-called enigmatic inscription from Byblos'; More on Habakkuk.
BASOR Feb 1950, - `The east gate of Ezekiel's Temple enclosure and the Solomonic gateway at Megiddo'.
Apr 1950, - `Alphabetic origins and the Idrimi Statue'; `The Leviticus fragments from the cave'.
Oct 1950, - `The chronology of South Arabia in the light of the 1st campaign of excavation in Qataban'; `A note on the gold sheath of Zendjirli and Eccl. 12:11'; `The 7 wives of king Keret'; `The date of the founding of Solomon's Temple', given as 963-923 BC.
Dec 1950, - `The 1st campaign of excavation of NT Jericho', Tulu Abu El Alayiq general plan.; Shows the north side of the Tell with the grand staircase.; the benches of the Exedra.; the typical `opus reticulatum' and statue niches.; `Cilicia and Babylonia under the Chaldean Kings'; `A new chronology of the Qatabanian kingdom'.
BASOR Feb 1951, - Excavations at Khirbet En-Nitla near Jericho;
Special investigation: Excerpts from the translation of the Dead Sea `Manual of Discipline', Isa 43:19 according to the first Isaiah scroll (DSIa) compared to the Masoretic text, decides the last letter of verse 19 (The word `nethiboth' is the last letter a `taw' or does the crack hide a `mem'?; Note on alphabetic origins;
Apr 1951, - The dating of the Dead Sea scrolls, Early Egyptian dialect interrelationships, A proposition of interest to historical geography; Go, view the land; Albr. Goetze, The problem of chronology and early Hittite history - Comment: The author uses two important events by which he links Hittite history with the rest of the Middle East, these are: 1) Mursili's raid on Babylon which put an end to the dynasty of Hammurabi, and 2) the renascence (orig. spelling) of Hittite power under the predecessor of Suppiluliumas; He states that 2) must fall after the Asiatic campaigns of Thutmoses III.; No. 1) is based on the interpretation of the `Telepinus Text' and the list of sacrifices for kings and queens. The usefulness of the lists depends on the question if they are arranged chronologically.[CIAS comment: The lists seem to be a very poor source.]; [End]; Ancient copper refining, Sumerian wisdom literature: A prel. survey, Archaeology and a point in Hebr. syntax - On double edged/mouthed swords and adzes, Where did Hezekiel receive the call to prophecy? - Answer: The Lord has no boundaries to call His people.; Syrians as pictured in the Theban tombs, The candlestick decoration on Byzantine oil lamps, The date formulae of Shu-ilishu of Isin, "... the year Shu-ilishu the king fashioned the dais-throne for Ningal.", "the year after Shu-ilishu the king fashioned the dais-throne for Ningal."; An epigraphical expedition to NE Transjordan; An important correlation between the Palestinian and Syrian Chalcolithic;
Oct 1951, - The 1951 campaign at Herodian Jericho, Microfilming manuscripts at Jerusalem and Mt. Sinai, Radiocarbon dating of cloth from the `Ain Feshkha cave, Proper names in the new Isaiah scroll;
Dec 1951, - From cave to village in pre-historic Iraq, `Waw' and `Yod' in the Isaiah Dead Sea scroll (DSIa); The stratification of Tell Abu Huwam on the Bay of Acre, Cypriote chronology and the dating of Iron I sites in Palestine;
BASOR Feb 1952, - Excavations at Dibon in Moab in 1950-51, A fragment of an early Moabite inscription from Dibon (may read `reservoir'), The smaller Beth-Shan stele of Sethos I - Image on p. 26;
Apr 1952, - The Zodiac of Khirbet Et-Tannur - Image: Shows a human figure holding behind its head a circle with the figure of the pagan zodiac symbols on it.; The historical allusions of the Dead Sea Habakkuk Midrash, The date of the Hittite capture of Babylon, A note on the chronology of the 2nd millennium;
A special textual investigation: P. 26, Some corrections regarding Isa. 43:19 in the Isaiah scroll (It reads `ntybwt' according to John Trevor.). The other word in question is the word `byšwmwn', preceding `ntybwt'(nethiboth, nahar =river), as compared to `byšymwn', which is the word for `desert', "yeshimon" with a leading letter `bet'. At this time we don't know what `byšwmwn' would stand for. The 1930 Hebrew edition published for the British & Foreign Bible Society follows the Masoretic text and has `byšymwn' in a bit different style of our printed Hebrew letters. The letter separation is marked as follows, the additional, extra down stroke marked lavender is a badly written Hebrew letter `yod' more so than other choices and compared to the preceding `yod', at least the way it looks to us here at CIAS. However, the down stroke is a bit too long. At the red marker is what should be the letter `mem'. At the blue marker, according to the experts, would be the separation between the last two letters, `waw' and the `final-nun' where the longer down stroke belongs to the final nun.); Comment: This is not a critical textual variation but just shown for students or those interested to illustrate what kind of (supposed) problems ancient texts can introduce. The translation of the words in question is not provided in the articles but in Bibles it is translated as "I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers (usually `nahar') in the desert". Of these words `wilderness' seems certain and so is `desert' and , `derek , way'. But the usual word for river (`nahar') is given as `nethiboth' in which the last letter was questioned [in the 1950's] above.
Oct 1952, - The joint excavations at Tell Es-Sultan (Jericho); The manuscripts of Isaiah from which DSIa was copied, The date of the Hittite raid on Babylon, Further observations on the chronology of the early second millennium BC;
Dec 1952, - The geological setting of four prehistoric sites in NE Iraq (between the Zab and Tauq Rivers located just east of the Tigris River between Kirkuk and Eshnuna.).; The excavation of the temple of the moon at Marib (Yemen), Notes on the temple `Awwam' and the archaic bronze statue; The Chaldean inscriptions in proto-arabic script reportedly reading "Nabu-kiribti, son of Durada";
BASOR Feb 1953, - A seal cylinder with an early alphabetic inscription, Ligatures with waw and yodh in the Dead Sea scroll, Abraham's purchase of Machpelah and Hittite Law (in revised view quite a bit out of proximity age wise); The historical background of the coins "Year four ... of the redemption of Zion'; The chronology of the Minaean kings of Arabia

Minaean King List

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I) Hyafi Yithi (son of Sidqi'il, king of Hadramaut) ... ca 400 BC
b) Hyafi-Riyam
c) Haufi 'athta (son and coregent of b)
d) Abiyadi' Yithi (probably grandson of I) ................ ca 343 BC
e) Waqah'il Riyam (son of d)
f) Hufnu Sidqu (son and coregent of e)
g) Hyafi Yafash (coregent of f)
h) `Ammiyathi' Nabat (son of Abikarib) .................... ca 300 BC
i) Yith'i'il Riyam
j) Tubba'karib (son and coregent of i)
k) Halikarib Sidqu (son of Abiyadi' [Riyam?] ........... ca 250 BC
l) Hufnu Yithi (son? and coregent of k)

II) Waqah'il Nabat (held Dedan) .... ca 200 BC
m) Hyafi Waqah ............
n) Waqah'il Sidqu (son of m) ..... ca 150 BC
o) Abikarib Yithi (son of n)
p) Hyafi' Yashur I .................... ca 100 BC
q) Hufnu Riyam (son and coregent of p)

III) Yith'i'il Sidqu
r) Waqah'il Yithi (son of III, vassal of Qataban) ... ca 75 BC
s) Hyafi Yashur II (son and coregent of r)
End of the Minaean Kingdom between 50 and 25 BC.

Amos 1:5 in the light of the Til Barsip inscriptions (Such articles are often very much dependent on correct chronology);

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Apr 1953, - New light from Egypt on the chronology and history of Israel and Judah (Now we know how that would come out to be.), Two notes on the repertoire of the chalcolithic pottery of Palestine, ; Two seals of the 9th century (?) from Shadikanni on the Habur - See images; Correspondence with Prof. Einar Gjerstad on the chronology of `Cypriote' pottery from Early Iron levels in Palestine, The traditional home of the Syrian Dan'el;
Oct 1953, - Exploration in western Palestine, The first season of excavation at Dothan, A Hebrew letter of the 2nd century from Beth Mashko, Notes on the 2 published letters to Jeshua ben Galgolah - Translation: "From Simon ben Kosbah to Jeshua ben Galgolah and to the men of the fort. Greeting. I call Heaven to witness against me (that if) a single one of the Galileans whom I have rescued is harmed (?) (that) I will put the fetters on your feet as I did to Ben Aflul. [Si]meon b[enKosbah, Prince of I]s[rae]l.";
Dec 1953, - The servant of the Lord in the Qumran scrolls I.; New Qumran biblical fragment related to the original Hebrew underlying the Septuagint, Mesilim and Mesannepadda - are they identical?, On the occurrence of Hippopotamus in the Iron Age of the coastal area of Israel (Tell Qasileh), A Greek inscription at Jathum in Transjordan. Translation: "Life is nothing (or worth nothing). (As for) Diomedes the lyrist and Abchoros the barber, the two (of them) went out into the desert with the commander of the foot soldiers and were stationed near a place called the city of Abgar." p.37.

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BASOR Feb 1954, - `Excavations at Dibon in Moab, '52-53.; `Puppy an Lettuce in NW Semitic (Mari) covenant making'.
Apr 1954, - `Inscribed (El-Khadr) javelin heads from the period of the Judges'; Evolutionistic educated scholars like Frank Cross wrote, `The evolution of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet', as if he knew, An archaic dextograde Sabean inscript. from Marev; .
Oct 1954, - Ludlow Bull.; `The Qumran Caves (No. 12) expedition of March, 1952', with a map.; `The 2nd season at Dothan'; `The Qoheleth scroll from Qumran'; `Fragments of another Isaiah scroll from Qumran'; `The `Servant of the Lord' in the Qumran scrolls'.
Dec 1954, - `A fragment of the `Song of Moses' (Deut. 32) from Qumran'; `On the Aramaic deed of sale of the 3rd year of the 2nd Jewish Revolt'; `Hyksos scarab jar handle from Bethel' (on file); `The lists of Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 7 & Ezra 2) and the Hebrew numeral notation'.
BASOR Feb 1955, - `The 2nd campaign at Bethel', Image: possible broken column bases of Persian (Achaem.) date; `Further explorations in the Negeb', (Khirbet Beqerah); `Hyksos fortifications and the battering ram' by Y. Yadin; An archaic south-Arabian inscription in vertical columns in a rock at Jebel Awrad, reads: "Šarhum, he of [the family of] Barlum, respects [and] protects in obedience to Dât-H[imyâm].";
Apr 1955, - `The 3rd season of explorations in the Negeb' (Tell Yeruham, Khirbet Haffir, Wadi Nefkh), Images: Tell Rekmeh/ Yeruham; Khirbet Hafir; Wadi Nefkh; `A Roman inscription from imperial period from Dhiban', reading: "ek keleuseos Kl(audiou) Kapitolin(o)u pres(beutou) Seb(astou) antis(trategou) o p(ur)gos egen (e) t (o) PhiNuZeata." Transl. "By order of Claudius Capitolinus legatus Augusti pro praetore the t(ow)er was constructed."; The date of Tell Abu Huwam, stratum III; `Some Qatabanian inscriptions dedicating `daughters of god''.; When did base ring ware first occur in Palestine?; On the early s. Ar. inscr. in vertical columns;
Oct 1955, - `The 3rd season at Dothan'; `New light on the Hupsu' based on the Alalakh tablets; A clue to the Nabatean contract from the Dead Sea region;
Dec 1955 (#140), - `Ed' in the story of creation; `The Site of ancient Gilgal' (Kh. el-Mefjir, ca. 2 km NE of Jericho. The famous pilgrim Willibald, [726-723 (error: may be either 626-723 or 726-823)] and the Russian abbot Daniel (1283 AD) places Galgala at that site. Also visits nearby `fountain of Elisha', south of Galgala.; New light on early recensions of the Hebr. Bible by W.F. Albright - `The son of Tabeel (Isa. 7:6)' (on file), interpreted to be the son of Uzziah or Jotham by a princess of Tabel (NE Palstine?); like Absalom's mother was a princess of Geshur, Rehoboam's mother was an Ammonite princess.
BASOR Feb 1956, - A report on the biblical fragments of cave 4 in Wadi Qumran; Index of Articles & Reports in bulletins Nos. 101-140 (p. 28ff); `A Nabatean Painting' from Siq el-Bared (of fine leafy plants).; `Further light of synchronisms between Egypt and Asia 935-685 BC, Dyn 23rd-25th, aligns Sargon with Osorken IV.;
Apr 1956, - `Explorations in the Judean Buqeah', showing Hirbet es Samrah from the west, a royal seal stamped jar handle and in situ ring burnished bowls..; `The 4th season of explor. in the Negeb', showing grossly misdated Neolithic flint arrow or javelin heads, a view of an Iron Age site, the Nabatean city site of Abdah with ruins of the Byzantine period, ancient terraces, badly executed rock drawings probably by some Bedouins and Tell Milh, ancient Malatha, on the road from Beersheba to Tell el-Arad.
Oct 1956, - `An unpublished arrowhead with Phoenician inscription'; `A radio-carbon date for early south Arabia', using the `acetylene counting method' "perfected" by Suess. Result 2,807±160 yrs (good luck). `The 4th season at Dothan'; Samueal's denunciation of kingship in the light of the Akkadian documents from Ugarit by I. Mendelsohn (on file); `New Evidence on the Chronology of the last kings of Judah' by Thiele (on file); `The Nebuchadnezzar and Neriglissar Chronicles' by Albright (on file); `The 1st campaign at Tell Balatah (Shechem)', showing a Greek coin of the late 6th or early 5th century BC (on what basis: a) centaur bearing a woman; other side, square quartered (500-480 BC); b) Thasos series: Satyr kneeling or running and carrying a struggling nymph clad in a long chiton (550-463 BC).; `Coming and going at the city gate'; `Lachish Letter IV'; `Stratigraphic confirmation of the low Mesopotamian Chronology'; `The Fountain of Jazer'.
Dec 1956, - Memoriam of Prof. John Garstang (5-5-1876 to 9-12-1956); The 1st campaign at Tell Balath (Shechem) by E. Wright, Image: east gate remains (on file), Coming and going at the city gate; Lachish Letter IV; Stratigraphic confirmation of the low Mesopotamian chronology (on file); The fountain at Jazer;
BASOR Feb 1957, - `The 5th season of explor. in the Negeb', showing what is thought to be a Middle Bronze stone circle, the glacis of Khirbet Gharrah, the Tell of Iron site 306, the imposing Tell of the Iron II fortress of `Ain Ghadyan' and Solomon's pillars.; On a drastic current reduction of south-Arabian chronology; `The prayer of Nabonidus' of the book of Daniel.; The legal formula in Egyptian, Egyptian- Aramaic, and Murabba'at documents;
Apr 1957, - Louis M. Ranbinowitz (1887-1957).; `A recent analysis of grain from ancient Dibon in Moab'; `Nabatean New Years lamp from Petra' (on file); A two-pegged bronze, `A bronze (No. 4432) in the semitic museum of Harvard University', representing a seated god holding a cup.; `Alalah and Hittite Chronology' by Goetze (on file); `Further observations on the chronology of Alalkh' (on file) - these chronologies are based on erroneous dates for Hammurabi.; `The excavation of the `Hierothesion' of Antiochus I of Commagne on Nemrud Dagh', (1953-56) showing images (on file).; `The Syrian town of Emar'; `The Qumran Isaiah and the end of the dial of Ahaz'; `A note on a seal impression from Tell Es-Sultan'.
Oct 1957, - The excavation of the `Hierothesion' of Antiochus I of Commagene on Nemrud Dagh ('53-56) (images on file); The Syrian town of Emar; The Qumran Isaiah and the end of the dial of Ahaz; Soundings at Khirbet Wadi Ez-Zaraniq; Radiocarbon date if Iron Age level at Dothan (on file); A note on a seal impression from Tell Es-Sultan (on file);
Dec 1957, - `The 2nd campaign at Shechem' by E. Wright, (on file as images); The seal impression from Jericho and the treasures of the 2nd temple (on file as images);.
BASOR Feb 1958, The 6th season of archaeological exploration in the Negeb (N. Glueck) Images: Includes a MBI village overlooking Wadi Hafir, coordinates: 102.3/022.2.; Census/taxes & ritual expiation in Mari and Israel (Ex. 30:11-16; Num. 1-4, 26; 2.Sam. 24 on file; Why should such an essential administration of taxes require offerings of expiation or atonement (kofer, Ex. 30:12) in order to ward off plagues, nor is it apparent how one such plague in the reign of David could be traced back to the census (2.Sam. 24).; The Assyrian open court building (AOCB) and its Palestinian derivatives; The AOCB and the West Building of T. Beit Mirsim; An ostraca from Calah and the north- Israelite diaspora;
Apr 1958, - The 1957 campaign at Beth-Zur; Recent progress in Palestinian archaeology: Samaria-Sebaste III and Hazor I; Note on a Judean deed of sale of a field; `Coming' and `going' at the city gate - A discussion of Professor Speiser's paper by Geoffrey Evans; A 1/2 page note on dating the Shechem Temple by Yigael Yadin (on file); Specimens of late Ugaritic prose;
Oct 1958, - The 3rd campaign at Bethel, Image: the early Hyksos wall at Bethel; An inscribed south Arabian clay stamp from Bethel; A comparative study of a (late) Helenistic pottery group from Beth-Zur; Remarks on some names occurring in the execration texts;
Dec 1958, - The 5th season at Dothan, Images: storage jars, massive 13 foot thick EB age city wall; The 7th season of archaeological exploration in the Negeb by N. Glueck, Images: Nabatean walled fields at et-Telah, Wadi Arabah, Gateway of Iron II fortress in the Negeb and the ramp leading up to it, Teleilat `anab on slopes below Mishrefeh, near Isheita,;
BASOR Feb 1959, - Preliminary report on archaeological soundings at Sohar (Oman); Ancient agricultural remains in the central Negeb: the Teleilat El-Anab; The shekel sign on stone weights; A seal weight from Nebi Rubin;
Apr 1959, - Excavations at Sardis- 1958; The date of casemate walls in Judah and Israel and their purpose;
Oct 1959, - An aerial reconnaissance of the Negev by N. Glueck; Israelite Samaria and Iron Age chronology; The sacred stone circle of Khor Rori (Dhofar); Dunand's new Byblos volume: A Lycian at the Byblian court;
Dec 1959, - Soundings in the grounds of the school in Jerusalem Dec 59-Apr 59; The Neolithic pottery of Palestine; The 6th season at Dothan; The Nabatean goddess Al-Kutba and her sanctuaries - and some notes on it; On the preferential status of the eldest son;
BASOR Feb 1960, - Excavations at Sardis in 1959 - Lydian graves - Pactolus cliff - Upper terrace and city wall - House of bronzes - Helenistic and Roman grave area west of the house of bronzes - Lydian levels at the house of bronzes Byzantine shops - Building B, East B, CG;
Apr 1960, - Preliminary epigraphic reports on the inscriptions found at Sardid in '58 (on file); Late royal seals from Judah (classification on the winged stamps on file); Yehud or Ha`ir; Notes on the 3rd Aramaic inscription from Sefire-Sujin;
Oct 1960, - Archaeological exploration in the Negev '59 by N. Glueck; The 1960 US archaeological expedition to Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman), Image: front part of a large offering table found at Sumhuram (Khor Ruri) (on file); Excavations at Petra in '59; The relation of the Chalcolithic pottery of Palestine to Halafian ware;
Dec 1960, - More inscribed jar handles from El-Jib by James B. Pritchard; The 7th season at Dothan; Some imported pottery at Khor Rori; A Ugaritic ABECEDARY and the origins of the proto-Canaanite alphabet; The ancient agricultural remains of the central Negeb: Methodology and dating criteria; An Ammonite stamp seal from Amman; The domesticated camel in the 2nd millennium - Evidence from Alalakh and Ugarit; On the date of the late Hittite palace at Sakcegözü;
BASOR Feb 1961, - The 3rd campaign of Balatah (Shechem)/ Field ... of the palace/ .. the temple/ .. stratification/ .. probing.; [! See artist's view of Solomon's Jerusalem.]
Apr 1961, - The 3rd campaign of Sardis, When was the late Hittite palace at Sakcagozu built?(1 page);
Oct 1961, - The fourfold division of Judah, Epigraphic notes on Hebr. documents of the 8th cent.: A new reading of a place name in the Samaria ostraca (Answer: Sefarim instead of Qosh); The south Arabian clay stamp from Bethel again, The Jotham seal from Elath, New evidence on the north Arabic deity Aktab-Kutba, The Nabatean-Roman temple at Dhiban, An ivory bulls head from ancient Jericho, The Negeb and Sinai in MBI - The caravan trade in 2nd cent BC, .. Abraham and the trade;
Dec 1961, - The 4th campaign at Bethel, Alcaeus 48 (B16) and the fall of Ascalon (604 BC) (1 page) - based on the find of the Aramaic letter of King Adon of Ascalon(?) in Egypt in 1942, begging aid against the advancing troops of Babylon (Jer 36:22), From Greek & Babylonian sources the mercenary Antimenidas of the army of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took part in a siege of Ascalon in Dec 604. Then he returned to his brother Alcaeus on Lesbos who celebrated his return in a lyric (48 B16) dated to 603 BC., one of the few dateable Greek poems;
New occurrences of the weight name `pym'/ 1/3.; The verb `shr' in Hebrew (trade), `soher (active participle)' trader, Akkadian cognate `saharum'=to turn, circle, traverse - `mkr' = trade, noun=tamkarum; Aramaic `sehar' means the same, taggara=trade; Hebrew `saharu el eres' =transl. as `trade to land' or is it `turn to land'?; Gen 34:21 `weyisharu otah'=`let them shr it', Gen 42:34 `we'et ha'ares tisharu' = and you shall `shr' the land' in each case the verb is construed with the direct object; But we do not obtain `trade in the land' but `to trade the land'. Argues for Gen 42:34 to mean `you can traverse the land/ move freely about it' instead of `to trade in the land' due to context considerations;
BASOR Feb 1962, - The scroll of Psalms (11QPss) from cave 11, Soundings at Araq el Emir (Jordan), Epigraphic notes on Hebr documents of the 8-6th cent: II the Murabba'at papyrus and letter found near Yabneh-Yam, Another ivory bulls head from Palestine;
Apr 1962, - The 4th campaign at Sardis, Images stored;
Oct 1962, - Selected seals from excavations at Shechem - An inscribed seal `lmbn' (7-6th c.); A votive altar from upper Galilee (bears image of a snake), Prehistoric trade and the puzzle of Jericho (over 200 meters below sea level), On corvee labor in ancient Canaan and Israel, Superstition and folklore on bread baking;
Dec 1962, - Reports, An archaic inscribed seal from the valley of Aijalon, The inscribed jar handles from Gibeon, An archaic bronze boar from Sardis, The chronology of MBI (EB-MB);
BASOR Feb 1963, - The 4th campaign at Shechem - the sacred area .. MBII C and LB.. The biblical traditions of the sacred area.. upper residential quarter... lower res quarter.. casemate fortifications; drawn list of pottery sherds; A further trace of the Sukenik-Mayer `3rd wall';
Apr 1063, - The 5th campaign at Sardis - Images: includes pix of inside of Alyattes mount (1 on file);
Oct 1963, - The 2nd & 3rd campaign at Araq el-Emir, The Qasr el-Abd: a proposed reconstruction, The animal fountain of Araq el-Emir, A classification for the Arabic dialects of Jordan; Hans Goedicke, `The end of `So', king of Egypt', p. 64-67 (on file);
Dec 1963, - A fragment of an early Moabite inscription from Kerak (partially on file), Thaj: A pre-islamic site in NE Arabia.. observations on its pottery; Ptolemaic stamped handles from Judah, New correlations between ras Shamra and Al-Amuq, Prelim report on epigraphic research in NW Wadi Hadramawt and at Al-Abar, Cherubs and the `tree of life' in ancient Saudi Arabia (on file); Note on the place name `spr' and the letter `samek' in the Samaria ostraca;
BASOR Feb 1964, - Paul W. Lapp, `The 1963 excavation of Ta'annek' (on file), An alphabetic cuneiform tablet from Taanach (on file), The Beth Shemesh tablet in alphabetic cuneiform, Shekel - fraction markings on Hebr weights;
Apr 1964, - The 6th campaign at Sardis, The excav of the main theater at Petra, The original account of the fall of Samaria in 2. Kings (on file);
Oct 1964, - Pottery from some Hellenistic loci at Shechem, Paleo-Hebr script in the Hasmonean age, A syllabic transcription of Ugaritic [h] and [], The name of Ashdod, Did a treaty between the Israelites and Kenites exist? ;
Dec 1964, - The problem of the Syrian Akra, Objects from Thaj in the BM, A new Hebr letter from the 7th cent BC in historical perspective, The 18th cent princes from Byblos and the chronology of MB, More about the Teleilat El-Anab in the Negeb;
BASOR Feb 1964, - The 7th campaign at Sardis ('64);
Apr 1965, - The 1964 Ai (Et Tell) excavations, Excavations at Tell Al-Rimah '64 (Tigris area, Iraq), The issue of the Teleilat El-Anab;
Oct 1965, - Further explorations in the Negeb, A preliminary report on the synchronization between the EB strata of Arad and the 1st dynasty (out of date article since ID of Arad is not for sure), Royal weights and measures, A Chaldean inscription from Nippur (little useable info), Further light on the history of MB Byblos;
Dec 1965, - The 5th campaign at Shechem, Image(s): Tell er-Ras with Mt Ebal in the backgrnd;
BASOR Feb 1966, - The date of the Neo-Hittite enclosure at Sakçagözü, Aegean place names in a list of Amenophis III by K. Kitchen (includes: Kunusa=Knossos, Amnisa=Amnios, Likata=Lyktos, Naupir=Nauplia, Kutira=Cythera.) Influence of geological conditions on the development of Jerusalem (Cenomanian, Turonian & Senonian), The treaty background of Hebrew Y'ada, Deut 23:7; 2.Sam 2:6 etc.;
Apr 1966, - The 8th campaign at Sardis (Image(s): Pilgrim flask with writing evangelist);
Oct 1966, - The effects of the Tennes rebellion (ca. -347/45) on Palestine, A sounding at Khirbet Haiyan, New excavations at Sukenik's 3rd wall, The scripts of 2 ostraca from Elath;
Dec 1966, - Notes on the chronology of near eastern Neolithic (Evolutionary ages), An Aramaic inscription and stelae from Daskyleion, The use of hieratic numerals in Hebr ostraca and the shekel weights, An inscribed 16 shekel weight from Shechem, The foundation deposits or offering deposits from Byblos, Remarks on the chronology of EBIV and MBIIA in Phoenicia and Syria-Palestine by Albright, A further note on the treaty backgrnd of Hebr Y'ada;
BASOR Feb 1967, - The '66 excavations at Tell Ta-aanek', A note on demographic and land use in the ancient Negeb, Notes on an Arabic dialect (`Dawayimeh' iddawayme) of southern of Palestine;
Apr 1967, - The 9th campaign at Sardis; Images: SW gate from the east, Graffito in Epichoric Script, Lydian Geometric ware, Mycenaean, Submycenaean, Protogeometric ware, Lydian limestone sarcophagus in situ with Mt. Tmolus on backgrnd at Saitan Dere, South shore of Gygean Lake with a ruined Lydian structure in foreground and the hill Ahlatli Tepecik in the background, Bin Tepe Cemetery: Duman Tepe, Early Byzantine bronze ring with image of archangel found in the dromos at Bin Tepe;
Oct 1967, - The 9th campaign at Sardis; Image: Mosaic inscr. of Aurelios Alexandros, Part of inscription of Severus Simplicius; Notes of interest: Some 40 coins of Constans II (641-660 AD) were found in the synagogue area C (coins not shown);
Dec 1967, - Some Edomite pottery from Tell El-Kheleifeh, part I-II, Hieratic numerals on Hebrew weights;
BASOR Feb 1968, - Bab Edh-Dhra tomb A76 at the eastern end of the Dead Sea Lisan and EBI in Palestine, An inscribed seal from Jordan, reads `Belonging to Qelyahu (son of) Dumla'el'; notes on some inscribed Syro-Phoenician seals (on file), Der alte Bau in Zincirli by D. Ussishkin (plan of acropolis on file);
Apr 1968, - The 6th campaign at Shechem, Images: Mt. Gerizim, Khirbet es-Seikh Nasrallah as seen from the village of Salim withe Shechem Pass in backgrnd, Tell Sofar as seen from the flanks of Mt. Ebal, Newly discovered site of Kuma looking toward Shechem Pass,;The Canaanite cuneiform tablet from Taanach, Instances of mobility among Mari artisans;
Oct 1968, - The 10th campaign at Sardis;
Dec 1968, - Richard S. Hanson, Aramaic funerary and boundary inscriptions from Asia Minor (Images: Kesecek Köyü & Gözne boundary inscr.), Images: The Kesecek inscription, reading by Donner: `Bis hierher (reicht) das Gebiet von DN. Wer du auch seist, der du (die Grenze) verletzest: es möge in verletzen B'LŠMJN, der Grosse ŠHR und Šamaš, (ihn) und die Nachkommenschaft, die er haben wird.'; tomb of Limyra, the Gözne boundary inscription; The stamped handle from Khirbet Yarmuk, The medallion and block relief at Petra, Further notes on the 3rd wall of Jerusalem, The Aramaic Argillary script in the 7th century;
BASOR Feb 1969, - The Amman Citadel Inscription by S. Horn, reads: "Mi]lkom has built for you entrances round about [.....] according to all that surrounds you from Tymtn [to ....] what had been destroyed I ... throughout the west [....] and on every threshold ... of the legitimate wall [....] door, at the inner door he dug [....] ... fear was among the men of the portico [...] for you [....]."; Epigraphic notes on the Amman citadel inscription, Two notes on Palestinian inscriptions of the Persian age;
Apr 1969, - Ein El Jarba on the road hugging the foot of the mountains of Manasseh between Acre and Megiddo parallel to the Qishon River in the Plain of Esdraelon, A Phoenician dialect of Larnax Tes Lapethou, An inscribed potsherd from the 11th century, Ugaritic formulas of greeting;
Oct 1969, - The 1968 excavations at Tell Ta'annek, A 2nd note on the synchronized between EB Arad and the 1st dynasty;
Dec 1969, - The '66 Ai (Et-Tell) excavations, On the shorter inscription from the tomb of the royal steward; Antas: A new Punic site in Sardinia: Images: A tabula with inscribed dedication to Sardus Pater and coin with his image, A statue base with a Punic inscription (on file), An inscribed south-Arabian clay stamp from Bethel;
BASOR Feb 1970; Three Hebrew Ostraca from Arad (the Ramath-negeb, reading: "From Arad 50(?) and from Kin[ah ...] and you shall send them (to) Ramath-neg[b by the han-]d of Malkiyahu the son of Qerab'ur and he shall hand them over to Elisha' the son of Yirmi-yahu in Ramath-negeb, lest anything should happen to the city. And the word of the king is incumbent upon you for your very life. Behold, I have sent to warn you today: (Get) the men to Elisha'! Lest Edom should come there."; Other ostraca are the `Wheat and Nehemyahu ostracons';; Phoenician incantations on a plaque of the 7th cent. BC from Arslan Tash in upper Syria - Image: The Arslan Tash Phoenician Plaque of a pagan people; The Ai (Et-Tell) excavations (68-69); The origin of the Mandaic script; Albert Henry Detweiler (1906-1970); Karl Herman Kraeling (1897-1966); The human remains from `Ein El-Jarba';
Apr 1970, - The '68-69' Ai (Et-Tell) excavations; The origin of the Mandaic script; Some comments on the `Amman' citadel inscription', "[... Mi]lcom said to me. `Build for thyself entry posts surrounding [thy land (?) ...] [...] according to all thy foreign relations, from `The two Depressions' [to ...(?)] [(There shall be general mobilization), the army shall gather (?)] as one man, all together, in all battle position[s ...] [...] and in all (military) ranks; it shall fight side [by side (?) with thee (?)] [... and every]thing shalt thou inscribe on the terebinth board - invite (the army) to a feast [...] [...] thou shalt trust in the Son of the Gods [...] [... the Son of the] Gods doth [command] thee, [go and ...]" The End.; Harmon in Amos 4:3.; Ugaritic `snpt' "wave-offering"';
Oct 1970, No. 199 - The 11th and 12th campaign at Sardis (68,69); L.J. Majestic; R. Meric; Paul Wilpert Lapp (1930-70, drowned while swimming off Cyprus.); The authenticity of the Bethel stamp seal; A reply to Yadin's article on the finding of the Bethel seal; A reading in the Beth-Shemesh tablet;
Dec 1970 - missing.;
BASOR Feb 1971, - No. 201; A salvage excavation at Raddana, in Bireh (near Ai); An inscribed jar handle from Raddana; Royal Isr. seal and jar handle stamps; 40 shekel weight with hieratic numeral; Seal impressions Achaemenid style; Genealogy of Gibeon (1.Chr. 9:35-44); Nelson Glueck (1900-71); A 40-shekel weight with hieratic numerals;
Apr 1971, - In memoriam: Nelson Glueck (6-4-1900 to 2-12-1971); Seal impressions in the Acharmenid style in the province of Judah; The genealogy of Gibeon (1.Chr. 9:35-44): Biblical and epigraphic considerations; A Hebrew `receipt' from Arad;
Oct 1971, - The 13th campaign at Sardis (70); Hebr. texts in Aramaic script in Persian period?; The Tell El-Maskhute bowls and the kingdom of Qedar, Persian period;

Palestine Exploration Fund

1911: `Megalithic Monuments of Rabbath Ammon at Amman'; Excavations at Ain Shems (Beth Shemesh); The Khazneh at Petra;

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Oct-Dec, 2009, Vol. 4, No. 4. -- Titles: `Much ado about Ida'; `At a snail's pace'; `Will this idea survive?', recent doubts that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.; `Genome in scramble'; `Is everyone a creationist?' researchers questionaire; `A creationist uncovers the truth' about earlier, erroneous medical instrument results.; `Fallible research'; `Teaching modesty in an immodest world'; `Seeing God underground', on caves and their displays.; On witnessing to various people.; `Proclaiming the Creator in Japan' featuring M. Mizumura.; `Night Stalker' article on sensory systems in owls.; `Why people leave the church'; Human body `Wired for extremes'; `The search for alien life'; `Skin, our living armor'; `Heart, constantly beating death'; `Brain, shaped by experiences'; `One leg up on architects' on dependence of the Tour Effel on human bone structure.; `What would Jesus eat?'; `Handling stress'; `Bones, God's living girders'; `Radiometric dating - Problems with the assumptions.'; `Making science to be fun'; `Who am I anyway?' on identity crisis.; `Saving the world begins at home'; `Who's number one in the universe?'; `Lost';
Jul - Sep 2010. Vol. 5, No. 1. -- Titles: Difference of human and chimp chromosomes.; The Scopes ReTrial; Neanderthals and Make-Up.; The giant Salamander found in 30 million years old rock layers looks like the living (5.5 ft) ones of our days.; Remember the real global warming day of 2.Peter 3:10.; Australopithecus sediba.; Fossilized footprints below Tiktaalik found in Poland show creatures walking, thus forcing Tiktaalik off the stage.; Teaching creation in Cambodia, Canada and in Russia.; On Skunks.; 10 lessons from an atheist, witnessing to Penn & Teller.; The `Water Bear' (Phylum Tardigrada).; The Ghosts of dead people - real?.; DNA in the kitchen - making onion DNA visible - Materials list and procedure included.; Those Water strider insects walking on water and how it is done.; Mysterious Madagascar - Extreme diversity of creatures.; Deep ocean heat and toxic vents - Life in extreme places.; Dinosaurs on Ice - Antarctopelta (13 ft), Chryolophosaurus (20-26 ft), Glacialisaurus (20-25 ft). - How Antarctica came about after separating from Australia.; Global warming: Solar connection, When politics and science collide, Normal in an abnormal world.; Exposing a fundamental compromise - old theologians falling for evolution - R.A. Torrey, James Orr, Dyson Hague, George Frederick Wright, Billy Graham. - were unable to discover the truth of creation.; Volcanoes - Windows into earth's past.; Pointing to the Creator - muscles and bones of our hands.; Blessing of obedience.; Science in the balance.; `Free Indeed' Wow, he is just learning to think as a Bible believing Christian.

Kapitel 01: Die äußere Stadtmauer
Kapitel 02: Der Hügel `Babil', Kanäle und Ziegelraub Kapitel 03: Überblick über die Stadt
Schematisch Übersicht des Palastes von `Babil' ca. 1915
Kapitel 04: Der Euphrat und seine Verschiebungen
Der Euphrat in 1907 (viel Wasser) und 1911 (wenig Wasser). Ein `Dschird (Wasser-Damm)'. Tor des Expeditionshauses von Kweiresh.
Kapitel 05: Das `Kasr' - Aufstieg und Prozessionsstraße - Methoden - Die Löwen - Konservierung der Ziegel - Asphaltmauern
Plan des `Kasr' Stadtteiles westlich vom Ishtar-Tor.
Kapitel 06: Das Ischartor - Die Dilatationsfuge
Das östliche Ende der Lehmmauer-Schenkel am Ishtar-Tor von Norden. Gesamtansicht vom Ishtar-Tor von Norden her. Goldplätchen aus dem Sarg im Nabupolassar-Palast. GenuteteDilatationsfuge am Ishtar-Tor. Ansicht des Ishtar-Tors vom Westen her. Die beiden östlichen Torpfeiler vom Ishtar-Tor.
Kapitel 07: Der Wandschmuck mit den Stieren und Drachen
Anfang der Ausgrabungen am Ishtar-Tor mit dem emaillierten Mauerstück, Dienstag dem 1.April 1902. (Nicht gut lesbare) Kuneiform-Inschrift vom Ishtar-Tor.
Kapitel 08: Die Prozessionsstraße südlich vom Ischtar-Tor; Der Ostkanal
Parthische/Griechische Geschützkugeln aus Stein (27.5 cm diameter (ca. 20.2 kg); 19 cm diameter (ca. 7-7.75 kg); 16 cm diameter (4-4.5 kg). Ansicht der Prozessionstrasse östlich von Etemenanki. Zeichnung der Straßeninschrift.
Kapitel 09: Der Ninmach Tempel - Lehmmauern mit Schilfeinlagen
Grundriß und Schnitt des Ninmach Tempels. Der bronzene Pfostenschuh. Lesbare Zeichnung der Inschrift des Sardanapal-Zylinders. Originale Ecke der Kisu-Inschrift.
Kapitel 10: Die Südburg
Gesamtplan der Südburg.
Kapitel 11: Der Ostfront der Südburg
Das Bogentor in der Burg.
Kapitel 12: Der Osthof der Südburg - Das Klima - Ziegelstempel - Z.verband - Z.inschriften - Größenverhältnisse und Stadtanfänge
Der Plan des östlichen Teiles der Südburg. Ziegelstempel Nebukadnezars, Nerglissars, Nabonaids, auch mit Aramäischen Beistempeln. Die wohl lesbare Zeicnungen einer 6 und 8 zeiligen Inschrift der Burg. Säulenbasis der Burg.
Kapitel 13: Der Mittelhof der Südburg
Kapitel 14: Der Gewölbebau - Die "hängenden Gärten der Semiramis"(?)
Gezeichneter Querschnitt des Gewölbenbaus.
Kapitel 15: Der Haupthof der Südburg
Versatzmarkierungen der Emailleziegeln. Die Rampe zwischen dem Palast des Nebukadnezar und Nabupolassar.
Kapitel 16: Der Nabupolassar-Palast
Zwischenraum zwischen dem Nabupolassar-Palast und der Burgmauer. Papsukal Statuette wo man sie fand. Nordwand des Nabupolassar-Palastes. Zweistreichiges Mauerwerk.
Kapitel 17: Die Festungsmauern südlich und nördlich vom Nabupolassar-Palast - Gemauerte Kanäle
Pforte in der Südmauer der Südburg. Fundamente der Festungsmauer der Südburg. Zwischenraum zwischen der Lehmmauer und der Südburg-Mauer mit Kanälen.
Kapitel 18: Der westliche Erweiterungsbau
Kapitel 19: Der "Perserbau" - Marmorsäulen and Persische Emaille-Ziegeln
Kapitel 20: Die Festungs und Kaimauern im Westen unf Norden der Südburg
Kapitel 21: Die Grabenmauer Imgur-Bels
Kapitel 22: Die Arachtu-Mauer Nabupolassars und die Mauer Sargons - Ziegelinschriften
Kapitel 23: Die westlichen Vorwerke
Kapitel 24: Die drei großen Festungsmauern nördlich von der Südburg
Kapitel 25: Die innere Stadtmauer - Nimitti-Bel-Zylinder Sardanapals
Kapitel 26: Die Hauptburg - Der Basalt-Löwe - Die Schamaschresch-ussur Stele - Die Hettiter Stele
Kapitel 27: Die Festungsmauern der Hauptburg
Kapitel 28: Die Nordburg
Kapitel 29: Rückblick auf das Kasr
Kapitel 30: Der Peribolos von Etemenanki - Das Heiligtum Bels - Der babylonische Turm - Himmelsbeobachtungen
Kapitel 31: Die Euphratbrücke
Kapitel 32: Das `Urasch' Brückentor
Kapitel 33: Die Nabonid-Mauer, am Euphrat
Kapitel 34: Die Arachtu-Mauern am Peribolos von Etemenanki
Kapitel 35: Esagila, der Tempel des Marduk, A, der Hauptbau
Kapitel 36: Der östliche Anbau (B) von Esagila
Kapitel 37: Die späteren Bauten am Nordrand des "Amran" - Parthische Gräber - Verschiedene Begrabungsmethoden - Das Perlenlager - Tempelstatuen
Kapitel 38: Die übrigen Teile des Hügels "Amran"
Kapitel 39: Der Tempel (Z) - Tempel-Erhöhungen - Das Anwachsen der Schutthöhen in babylonischen Ruinen
Kapitel 40: Epatutila - der Tempel des Ninib
Kapitel 41: Die Grabungen nördlich beim Nunib-Tempel - Emaille-Gefäße - Ruinenhügel-Bildung
Kapitel 42: Das "Merkes" - Wechsel des Grundwasserstandes - Art der Ausgrabungen in Einzelgruben
Kapitel 43: Die Kleinfunde, größtenteils vom Merkes - Tabletten in Töpfen - Keramik, Glas, Geräte
Kapitel 44: Die Gräber im Merkes
Kapitel 45: Die Terrakotten
Kapitel 46: Das "große Haus" im Merkes
Kapitel 48: Der Tempel der Ischtar von Agade im Merkes
Kapitel 49: Der nördlich Hügel von "Homera" - Alter Schutt vom babylonischen Turm
Kapitel 50: Der Mittlere Hügel von "Homera" - Stätte der Scheiterhaufens des Hephästion (?)
Kapitel 51: Rückblick auf die Ruinen - Stadtgeschichte
52. Anhang
53. Register

Quoting Lisa Lee:

"As mentioned above, Velikovsky did not relate to the Global level at all. Whether this was a result of his realization that no such level existed which did not rule out most of his revision or was simply an oversight is uncertain.
Velikovsky made wide use of Alter-Egos, or identifying two dynasties or nations as the same in order to facilitate the compression of ancient history."

Of course we also know from real history that ancient rulers were definitely known by various names, any of which could or did not resemble the name they popularly became known to us today.

Continuing, Lisa Lee rambles:

"In doing so, he left a legacy which has wasted a good deal of productive energy in the area of revision hypotheses. This is because he did so uncritically. For example, his equation of the neo-Babylonian dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar with the Hittite dynasty of Hattusilis III was predicated on different names being used in different types of sources. In Babylon, he claimed, this dynasty called itself by Babylonian names, while in Asia Minor, it used Hittite ones. The Egyptians knew them as the Hittites and used their Hittite names. It is, however, a very different thing to claim, as he did, that two kings of Egypt, each with his own titulary, were the same, without providing any reasonable explanation for the two sets of names."

Amazingly, Lisa Lee can't think of any examples that alter-egos in ancient times were the rule rather then the exception.

"Thus, Egypt casts a veto on the equation of the Hittites and Babylonians."

Not really, Lisa, the discovery of the tomb of the chief of staff of Ramses II has been given as `Necharomes', Necho-Ramses. Why would one expect a `Necho..' in the 13th century BC rather than the 7th/6th century BC?

"Of late, there has been a regular plague of "alter-ego" theories, all of which violate reason to an amazing degree. The greatest offender in this area until recently has been Professor Gunnar Heinsohn of the University of Bremen. He has identified Akhnaton and Necho II, Darius I and Hammurabi, Sargon of Akkad and Sargon II of Assyria, the neo-Babylonians and Kassites and neo-Sumerians of Ur III, and the list goes on and on. Recently, an even more bizarre proposal of Jesse Lasken had Ptolemy I, Horemheb, Ramses III and Thutmose III united into one outrageous compound creature.
One unfortunate consequence of this has been to discredit the idea of alter-egos altogether in the eyes of some. And it is true that prudence would dictate extreme care when making use of such a device. But the possibility of different points of view resulting in an artificial doubling of individuals or dynasties cannot simply be dismissed, as easily abused as it is."

Of course, Damien Mackey may top them all when it comes to Lisa's `plague'. But such is history, archaeologists, of which historians often feed, have been blinded to such connections because they had a first hand, naive starting theory to simplify things, thus not recognizing the compound nature of true history. The linear approach was best for the text book writers, but life is seldom as simple as that. If some can't comprehend the multi-personalities of individuals and/or ruling by proxy, that is their problem and true history shall remain a closed book for them.

Granted, multi-identifications can cause problems if not all evidence is carefully balanced. Thus the attempt of those who try to explain away the multitude of Ramses II, Pharaoh Necho, connections and the Ramses III period, Pereset/Persians connections as distinctly provided by the primary source of the Canopus Dekret, in favour of mere other types of similarities, can lead to erroneous conclusions. At CIAS we listen and weigh, realizing that not all of the pieces of the puzzle have been found. But we work with what we have and must admit that all the attempts to provide a running story of all the kings and queens, are working theories at this time, albeit, we believe, of much better substance than convention can provide.

01) Why all this old stuff? Answer: Because its there, however, we do not post it because it is all valuable or good reading, no. We post it because many people are searching for items and if we do not post it, they go to pagan sites and find it there and no link to Christian themes as they can find such here.

02) Where people capable within the last 3000 years, lets say 1498 or 1798 AD, to produce chipped flint stones as tools and bury their dead in the various orientations and positions archaeologists find them in today? --- Hmmmmmmm.
[Leslie A. Quintero, `From Flint Mine to Fan Scraper: The Late Prehistoric Jafr Industrial Complex' in BASOR, Aug 2002, No. 327, p. 17-48.]

[200] It is possible that the `Shroud of Turin' was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and was comissioned by pope Alexander VI (1503) and represents a self-portrait of Leonardo, a scoffer at religion?

[800] `Limonitic': Any of a group of widely occurring yellowish-brown to black iron oxide minerals, essentially FeO(OH)·nH2O, used as a minor ore of iron.