BIBLE TIMES TECH is a new exhibition in the SciTech Hands-On Museum in Aurora, Illinois. The Chicago Tribune (requires registration) has a brief article on it. Excerpt:

Based on the research of the late Ken Mull, who was a professor of religion and archeology at Aurora University, the exhibit compares tools and machines used in the Middle East during biblical times with their modern counterparts.

An electric bulb glows beside the two dozen clay oil lamps it would take to equal its light. A reconstructed well from which visitors can haul water is dwarfed next to 50-gallon bottles representing the amount of water the average Fox Valley resident uses each day. A lyre, doumbek and hanging cymbals show children what it was like to make music without a stereo system.