Philippe Bohstrom

Greek Town Thousands of Years Older Than Thought, Goes Back to Stone Age

Strategically located on trading routes that could go back to the Stone Age, once the Oracle became popular, Kirrha served as the port of Delphi

Cypriot and Phoenician pottery with metal bowl and beads found with three bodies in the Phoenician grave at Achziv

Whole Nuclear Family Found in Ancient Phoenician Tomb in Israel

`The remains of what seems to be a cherished child buried with its unadorned parents in Achziv 2,800 years ago indicate they lived well and died a century before the Assyrians arrived

Massive Mamluk Destruction Found at Crusader Castle in Israel

Debris layer discovered at Montfort Castle in the northern Galilee is first evidence of Sultan Baybars' Muslim campaign in 1266, archaeologists say

Assyrians Came, Conquered, and Kicked Everyone Out: Tablets Reveal 2,700-year-old Relocation

Cuneiform records show land sales 2,700 years ago in Hadid, central Israel, were made to people with entirely foreign names

This clay tabled, dated to 1450-1375 BC is Minoan and was found at Knossos by Arthur Evans. It records quantities of oil apparently offered to various deities

Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization

The Minoans and their capital Knossos weren’t incinerated by volcanic blast from Thera or flattened by quake as thought, but tellingly: their writing system changed.

Painting of Lilith by John Collier, evidently conflating a number of origin myths

Stalking Us for 9,000 Years: The Levantine Origins of the Undead

From enigmatic burials in prehistoric Jordan to the ancient Sumerian demoness Lilitu, the vampiric archetype originated early, and endures in a form the ancient Romans would recognize very well

The Ibscha Relief from the tomb of the high official Khnumhotep II, who served pharaohs Amenemhat II and Senusret II of the 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, 20th century BCE - i.e., about 4,000 years ago, when Semites were migrating to ancient Egypt in search of a better life. The relief is believed to show Semites arriving in Egypt, possibly the Hyksos.

Were Hebrews Ever Slaves in Ancient Egypt? Yes

Ancient Egypt had intimate relations with Canaan, and most of the Semitic peoples migrating there would have been Canaanite. But not all.

The palaestrai (wrestling school) in Olympia.

Temple to the Goddess: New Findings Change What We Know About Male-only Olympics Games

Pausanius was right: Priestesses of Demeter were, alone among women, allowed to watch the ancient Grecian games, from their temple now found by the racetrack

Relief of throne-bearing soldiers in their native clothing at the tomb of Xerxes I, demonstrating the satrapies under his rule: List of soldiers under Xerxes' rule: Persian, Median, Elamite, Parthian, Arian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Choresmian, Zarangian, Arachosian, Sattagydian, Gandharan, Hindush, Sakahaumavarga, Sakatigraxauda, Babyloan, Assyrian, Arab, Egyptian, Armenia, Cappadocian, Lydian, Ionian, Saka, Skudrian, anotehr Ionian tribe, Libyan and Ethiopian

Archaeologists May Have Found 2,500-year-old Persian Military Base in Northern Israel

The Persian camp on the Acre plain seems to have been a base camp for King Cambyses' all-out attack on Egypt in the 520s B.C.E.

Guns protruding out of the upper gun deck ports of the starboard side

Archaeologists Find Lost Swedish Man-of-war, and Sink the Hype

Mars may well have been one of the biggest warships in the world when it exploded off the Swedish island of Öland in 1564, sinking with all hands, but it seems some exaggeration was involved

The Great Hall at the Teutonic Order's Galilee stronghold, Montfort Castle.

Massive Ceremonial Hall Discovered Under Crusader Castle in Northern Israel

Archaeologists exploring Montfort Castle in the Galilee discovered a previously unknown, richly decorated Gothic hall where the secretive knights' order gathered for their assemblies

Discovery of a missing piece of Antikythera Mechanism on the Aegean sea floor

Missing Piece of Antikythera Mechanism Found on Aegean Seabed

Bronze disk unearthed by archaeologists in same wreck where original 2,200-year-old computer had been found; also located bits of the ship that Jacques Cousteau and looters hadn't destroyed

Metal bowl for catching the blood of the sacrificial animal.

Israelites in Biblical Dan Worshipped Idols – and Yahweh Too, Archaeologists Discover

Finds in the northern biblical city of Dan suggest that even if King Jeroboam pushed worship of golden calves and goat demons to spite Jerusalem, there was a big YHWH temple

Caravaggio - David with the Head of Goliath

Huge if True: The Archaeological Case for Goliath

Is the story of the Philistine champion Goliath a distant memory of an event that took place in the 11th century B.C.E. or a fable by priests conspiring in Jerusalem 400 years later?

The entrance to Cioclovina Cave, Transylvania.

Treasure, Skulls in 3,300-year-old Transylvania Tomb Were From Nymph Cult, Archaeologists Suggest

Imported jewelry in tombs in the Romanian heartland reveals brisk trade with Scandinavia and Mesopotamia in antiquity, but why were these gems put inside caves in the first place?

Small stone seal found in Abel Beth Maacah, depicting a dance scene, 10th-9th centuries BCE.

Archaeologists Find Signs of 3,000-year-old Oracle Cult in Ancient Israel

Abel Beth Maacah was famed in biblical times for conflict resolution: Now archaeologists have found a strange shrine that may have served the city's 'wise woman'

A large rounded compound at Khirbet el-Mastarah

Is This Where the Israelites Camped on Their Way to Canaan 3,200 Years Ago?

Stone structures found in the Jordan Valley wasteland may have been erected by the Israelites crossing, very slowly, into Canaan, archaeologists postulate

The Photo-drama of Creation used the recorded voice and moving pictures of Charles Taze Russell in 1912

Before Herzl, There Was Pastor Russell: A Neglected Chapter of Zionism

Years before Theodor Herzl proposed creating a Jewish state, Charles Taze Russell was traveling the world holding Jewish Mass Meetings, beginning in 1879, at which he urged Jews to find a national home in Eretz Israel

One of the rooms in which the Gazelle bones were found at Shikhin

Ancient Judeans Wrote Torah Scrolls on Gazelle Hide, Archaeologists Find

Since rabbis frowned on eating hunted animals, discovery of gazelle remains in the 1,900-year-old Galilean towns hints at parchment industry, say archaeologists

Tablet from Jewish exile in Babylon: Ahikam Ben Refayahu divides his wealth among his five children.

Jerusalem: The Not-so-eternal Capital of the Jewish People

Jews have been unquestionably connected with the city for millennia, yet it functioned as their capital only for short periods in history

A laser scanner operating on top of the Cyclopean wall at the Lower Castle of Tiryns, Mycaenae

Fatal Flaw in Quake Theory: Science Reveals What Brought Down Mycenaean Palaces

Debris and bodies crushed under fallen walls had led archaeologists to think Mycenaean civilization was brought down by quake. Can't be, geophysical study reports

Assyrian relief depicting warriors on horses, 8th century B.C.E. From Ashurbanipal's palace at Nineveh

How Mice May Have Saved Jerusalem 2,700 Years Ago From the Terrifying Assyrians

The entire region quailed before King Sennacherib, known for horribly torturing rebel monarchs, but he didn't kill King Hezekiah. Inquiring minds have been asking why ever since

Details of the fresco fragments from thermal baths of the Roman domus by Tor Vergata, Rome.

Naked Cherubs Fresco, Rare Art Unearthed in Nero-era Mansion by Rome

Mosaics, colored stucco and cherubs sporting on sky-blue background found in house that had been occupied for hundreds of years

Complete seal bearing the name 'Achiav ben Menachem' found at the City of David's Beit Shalem excavation.

Isaiah the Prophet, Man or Biblical Myth: The Archaeological Evidence

Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time

Apulian pottery depicting Dione and Aphrodite, an artistic copy from the famous eastern pediment of the Parthenon in Athens made by the famous Greek sculptor Phidias in the 5th century BCE. Found in e-Tell, Geshur, Israel.

Archaeologists Uncover Pottery With Parthenon Scene in Biblical Village

Ceramic decorated with birth of Athena copied from Parthenon frieze, and other imported luxuries signal, that the textile dyeing business was thriving in Bethsaida 2,300 years ago

Roman cooking pot with the remains of a cremated Roman Legionary, found at the first base camp of Romans found in the East, by Tel Megiddo.

Cremated Soldier Found in Cooking Pot at Vast Roman Camp in Israel

The camp discovered by Armageddon is the only full-scale Roman legionary base found so far in the East: It housed the 'Ironclad' Sixth Legion, a cremated comrade in a cooking pot, and a Sacred Eagle, whose birdly squawks would be interpreted as portents of war