SciFriday: Sodom and the Cult of the Dead
2022-09-02
AMONG THE MYSTERIES of ancient Sodom are the fields of megalithic funerary monuments called dolmens clustered around the city.Continue Reading
SciFriday: Finding Sodom
2022-08-26
THE SITE of biblical Sodom was overlooked by archaeologists for decades because the hill on which it was built was too obvious. Seriously.Continue Reading
SciFriday: Sentient AI and Our Wobbly Earth
2022-07-15
A senior software engineer at Google believes the company has created a sentient artificial intelligence. Have they really, and if so, what are the consequences?Continue Reading
Mourning ‘beyond the Jordan’
2020-07-19
JACOB WAS buried at the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. So, why did Joseph and his brothers take his body all the way around the other side of the Dead Sea and mourn for seven days at a threshing floor in the ruined city of Sodom?
Dr. Scott Stripling – Digging Israel
2019-07-15
ARCHAEOLOGY CAN be a tricky business—especially when you dig in Israel. Dr. Scott Stripling, Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Researchat Khirbet el-Maqatir and Shiloh, talks about the importance of archaeology for better understanding the Bible.