Bible
Manuscripts, the text and the world of the Old and New Testaments.
New TestamentTomb of Jesus: Holy Sepulchre dig reveals a quarry, planted plots and rock-cut tombs, but cannot say which tomb was his
A preliminary Sapienza University report on the Jerusalem basilica describes the ground beneath it; the plant remains still lack radiocarbon dates.
October 30, 2026 · 9 min read- New Testament
Where Jesus was baptized: archaeologist says ruins dug up in Jordan from 1996 to 2002 reveal the 'true place'
A six-page paper by Mohammad Waheeb revisits digs from 1996 to 2002; in 2015 UNESCO's advisers said the archaeology could not prove the baptism spot.
- Old Testament
Ebed-melech, the Cushite who pulled Jeremiah from the cistern with old rags and ropes: what we know about Zedekiah's official
BAS revisits Jeremiah 38. No inscription naming him has turned up in our reporting, but seals of two nobles from the same chapter were found in Jerusalem.
- Manuscripts
Jesus "appeared alive on the third day": new study reopens the mystery of a 2,000-year-old text by a Jewish historian
Written around AD 93, the most controversial passage by Flavius Josephus survives in four different versions. A Spanish researcher compared them all to find out what the historian really said.
- Old Testament
Scientists start drilling into the "Noah's Ark" site: radar points to right-angled voids beneath a 538-foot formation near Mount Ararat
A Turkish and American team spent 90 days at the hull-shaped formation, collected 1,000 soil samples and found pottery. The lab results are still to come.
