The first Assyrian inscription discovered in Jerusalem reveals ancient biblical-era correspondence between Assyrian empire ...

The ancient Assyrians couldn’t exactly take to the phones like the IRS, making incessant calls demanding that loyal subjects ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They ...

The royal seal of a biblical king has been unearthed near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The seal, a clay impression depicting a two-winged sun with two ankh symbols on either side, was once used to ...

Approximately 180 stamp impressions of the Judahite administration discovered at Mordot Arnona. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) For the first time near Jerusalem, archeological excavation ...

Chapter 17 These last few chapters of 2 Kings are like reading a history of Germany in the 1930s or watching the movie United 93. A terrible ending waits just around the corner, and you hope that it’s ...

One of the most interesting figures in the bible is King Hezekiah—reformer, builder, and entirely historical, attested to in a passel of extra-biblical sources. New sources have been excavated over ...

The Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology under the direction of Dr. Eilat Mazar, have ...

As one of the few good kings in Second Kings and Second Chronicles, Hezekiah erred terribly at times but generally left a commendable record during his reign over Judah from 716 to 697 B.C. The Rev.