Recent excavations at what is believed to be the site of Bethsaida in Galilee have uncovered finds from the first century and earlier times. Among the remains discovered is a paved road of the Roman period that was very likely used by Christ and his disciples. The excavation site was identified as…
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Fragments of a large, “exquisitely carved statue” of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, estimated to have stood about four to five metres tall, have been discovered by archaeologists working in Turkey (“Giant statue of Hadrian unearthed”, BBC News, 9 August 2007).
The pieces of this gia…
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On 27 January, 2015, some 200 survivors gathered at Auschwitz in Poland to observe the 70th anniversary of its liberation. Auschwitz, the largest camp established by the Germans, comprised a concentration camp, extermination centre and auxiliary forced-labour camps. It has been described as …
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Jerusalem’s Temple Mount was the location of the Temples of Solomon and Herod and today is the site of the Muslim holy places, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Jordanian Waqf, the Muslim council which administers the compound, was left in charge of the Temple Mount after Israe…
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Jan Karski was an eyewitness of the Holocaust1 who attempted to draw the attention of the United States and Britain to the slaughter of Polish Jews early in World War Two. Born Jan Kozielewski in 1914, Karski came from a working-class Catholic family from Lodz, Poland. He commenced a career…
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Excavations in Jerusalem over recent years have uncovered evidence that confirms Jeremiah’s record of the last years of the Kingdom of Judah.
For example, Eilat Mazar’s excavations of the City of David at Jerusalem have yielded two small clay bullae (seal impressions) that bear the names of p…
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When the Queen of Sheba made her celebrated visit to king Solomon, the Bible records that among other gifts, she brought “very much gold, and precious stones” (1 Kings 10:2). Indeed, the record goes on to say that she gave Solomon “an hundred and twenty talents of gold” (1 Kings 10:10). It n…
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