Friday, December 22, 2023

Haaretz's top 2023 archaeology stories

ANNUAL ARCHAEOLOGY LIST WATCH: The Real King David's Jerusalem and Other Biblical Archaeology Discoveries in Israel 2023 (Ruth Schuster, Haaretz).

PaleoJudaica has, of course, posted on most of these stories. For Jerusalem as the upturned archaeological layer cake, see here. For Jerusalem's "Millo," see here. For Hazael's invasion and baked bricks at Gath, see here. For those Temple Mount voids, see here. For extracting the DNA of First Temple-era Israelites, see here. For Yossi Garfinkel's case for a Davidic bureaucratic state, see here. For Jerusalem's mystery monumental moat, see here. And for the the Mount Ebal curse tablet/fishing weight, see here, here, and here.

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