Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jewish military officer, who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 in France, has been posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general.[1]
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was charged with selling secret documents to Germany.
French President, Emmanuel Macron, and …
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced that a fragment of an Assyrian cuneiform inscription on a pottery sherd from the First Temple period (eighth to seventh centuries BC) has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.[1]
Measuring about 2.5cm (1 inch) in size, the tiny artefa…
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A bulla (seal impression) with a Hebrew inscription was discovered recently in material from the Temple Mount. A bulla is an inscribed clay, soft metal, or wax token used in official documents. It is believed to date from the seventh to sixth century BC, based on the shape of the letters. The find i…
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The search for Noah’s Ark and evidence of a world-wide flood has been the subject of speculation over many years. Much of the debate has lacked credible evidence or rigorous analysis. But now scholars from Istanbul Technical University, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, and Andrews University in the …
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A social worker in Warsaw, Poland, during the Nazi occupation, Irena Sendler organised a group that smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a result, nearly 2500 children were saved from certain death under the Nazis.
The Warsaw Ghetto was created by the Nazis to concentrate th…
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The word Ophel is used in several different ways in the Old Testament. It is used of a specific geographic location within Jerusalem. Hence:
2 Chronicles 27:3 – “He [Jotham] built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.”
2 Chronicles 33:14 – …
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In 2012 a series of excavations was undertaken in Jerusalem, in the region known as the Ophel near the southeast corner of the Temple Mount1. The excavations were led by the late Dr Eilat Mazar.
During that dig a number of large, broken pithoi (storage vessel) pieces were discovered embedded in a…
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An extensive stone quarry has been discovered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim1 neighbourhood by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). It is the largest quarry uncovered from the Second Temple period (the return from Babylonian exile to AD70) in the region. Extensive building projects were undertaken …
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Israeli researchers have used a precise method to establish a detailed chronology of the First Temple period (1200BC to the Babylonian destruction in 586BC). Working with archaeological evidence at the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, the team reconstructed an accurate history of the city b…
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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-metre-long section of what is known as the Upper-Level Aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period (about 2000 years ago), the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reports.1
Discovered under tons of waste during construc…
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