Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Detecting refugees from the Great Revolt of 70 CE.

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Judean Refugees in Galilee? Oil Lamps Shedding Light on an Ancient Migration (Jonathan Laden). This essay summarizes an article by James Riley Strange in the current issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. The article itself is behind the subscription wall.

For a research project on tracing the survivors of the eruption of Vesuvius a few years later, see here and here.

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