Which do you think is most significant among Recent top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries?

[Anonymous]

Which recent biblical archeological discovery is the most interesting/ consequential?

Trigger warning for many DCUM regulars - you actually need to read the article linked below to offer an insightful opinion. The captions don’t always do Justice to implications for each find.


Herod the Great’s green thumb

Herod’s seaside entertainment complex

A biblical pharaoh’s border monument

An unknown Egyptian city

A crucifixion foot

More Dead Sea discoveries

Yavne, just Yavne- The modern city of Yavne

[b]A Temple Mount banquet hall.

Gideon’s jug.

A second synagogue in Magdala

Philistine bananas
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https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/december/biblical-archaeology-top-10-discoveries-new-artifacts-2021.html

[Anonymous]

OP -
For me it is #7 An unknown Egyptian city

It is Mind blowing that an entire city could be suddenly evacuated to indulge the grandiose ambitions of a Pharaoh close in time to the stubborn one mentioned in Exodus. He wan’t just oppressing foreigners into slavery but his own people. It would be interesting to learn whether the details of daily Life in Egypt lends more insight into the early Old Testament stories.

“Archaeologists announced the discovery of a previously unknown city on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor. Believed to be one of the largest Egyptian cities ever unearthed, it dates to the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. This pharaoh was the grandfather of Tutankhamun but, more importantly perhaps, the grandson of Amenhotep II, believed by many evangelical scholars to be the pharaoh of the Exodus.

The city appears to have been suddenly abandoned. The inhabitants may have been driven out of their homes when Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, rounded up workers to build him a completely new capital city in central Egypt. What remains today may reveal many details of daily life in Egypt around the time of Moses.”

[Anonymous]

I'm confused - what does a city dating to Amenhotep III have to do the the Biblical Pharaoh who's believed to be his grandfather?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused - what does a city dating to Amenhotep III have to do the the Biblical Pharaoh who's believed to be his grandfather?

The large, recently unearthed city dates to the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

This pharaoh is thought to be the grandson of Amenhotep II, who many assert was the pharaoh of the Exodus.

[Anonymous]

That is really cool!!

[Anonymous]

There have been so many cool archeological finds that relate to the Bible recently. Another one is discovering a second synagogue in Magdala

The University of Haifa announced the discovery of another first-century synagogue at Magdala in 2020, located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The first Magdala synagogue, discovered a dozen years ago, was notable because it was in use before the destruction of Jerusalem, when worship was still centered at the temple. Now there are two.

Only a handful of first-century synagogues have been excavated in Israel. Of those, these are the ones most likely visited by Jesus during his ministry (Matt. 4:23) because of their location near the Nazareth-to-Capernaum road and their association with the hometown of Mary Magdalene.

This second synagogue, located less than 200 yards from the first, was discovered while preparing for a road-widening project. It “is now changing our understanding of Jewish life in this period,” according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. Many scholars had thought synagogues flourished and took on a more religious function only after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. This new evidence seems to indicate that synagogues, which were more like community centers in their early days, included more religious activities

Modern Jewish Community Centers apparently predate Jesus and were visited by him.

[Anonymous]

It's all fascinating.

[Anonymous]

Cool! Thanks for linking

[Anonymous]

Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 360 B.C.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent. Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

no, because ocean floor mapping has proved it doesn’t exist.

what does Plato’s “Atlantis” have to do with the Bible, religion, or the topic of this thread?

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 360 B.C.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent. Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

no, because ocean floor mapping has proved it doesn’t exist.

what does Plato’s “Atlantis” have to do with the Bible, religion, or the topic of this thread?

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

This really has nothing to do with this thread. Inviting discussion around most significant of recent archeological discoveries related to biblical stories.

You could start your own thread regarding most significant archeological discoveries that have never taken place.

It does underscore how remarkable it was to unearth an entire ancient Egyptian city though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 360 B.C.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent. Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

no, because ocean floor mapping has proved it doesn’t exist.

what does Plato’s “Atlantis” have to do with the Bible, religion, or the topic of this thread?

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

This really has nothing to do with this thread. Inviting discussion around most significant of recent archeological discoveries related to biblical stories.

You could start your own thread regarding most significant archeological discoveries that have never taken place.

It does underscore how remarkable it was to unearth an entire ancient Egyptian city though.

It really is remarkable. That’s probably why some troll decided to disrupt the thread and bring Atlantis into the discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 360 B.C.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent. Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

no, because ocean floor mapping has proved it doesn’t exist.

what does Plato’s “Atlantis” have to do with the Bible, religion, or the topic of this thread?

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

This really has nothing to do with this thread. Inviting discussion around most significant of recent archeological discoveries related to biblical stories.

You could start your own thread regarding most significant archeological discoveries that have never taken place.

It does underscore how remarkable it was to unearth an entire ancient Egyptian city though.

It really is remarkable. That’s probably why some troll decided to disrupt the thread and bring Atlantis into the discussion.

Thank you.

If it was a troll, I should be glad they say unkind things for no reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think Atlantis will ever be found?

Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 360 B.C.

It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world.

Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent. Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass "larger than Libya and Asia together."

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

no, because ocean floor mapping has proved it doesn’t exist.

what does Plato’s “Atlantis” have to do with the Bible, religion, or the topic of this thread?

Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, "The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis."

Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

This really has nothing to do with this thread. Inviting discussion around most significant of recent archeological discoveries related to biblical stories.

You could start your own thread regarding most significant archeological discoveries that have never taken place.

It does underscore how remarkable it was to unearth an entire ancient Egyptian city though.

It really is remarkable. That’s probably why some troll decided to disrupt the thread and bring Atlantis into the discussion.

Thank you.

If it was a troll, I should be glad they say unkind things for no reason.

Sorry meant to say - did not say particularly unkind things. Just odd and unrelated. But not being inflammatory is good.

[Anonymous]

Another fascinating discovery -ancient Israelites were industrial level wine producers … the rabbis loved both wine and art ..

Yavne, just Yavne

The modern city of Yavne, located between Tel Aviv and Ashdod, has been a prolific site for archaeological discoveries in 2021. The city is growing quickly, and as a large tract of land is prepared for new housing construction, archaeologists are uncovering amazing artifacts.

About 1,500 years ago, Yavne was an industrial center for wine production, producing approximately a half million gallons of wine per year. Archaeologists uncovered five huge winepress production areas, each over half the size of a basketball court, along with four huge warehouses and kilns for firing wine storage jars. They also found an older winepresses from the Persian period, dated to around 300 B.C.

In the decades after the destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, Yavne became a spiritual center, the home of many rabbis and the Sanhedrin. A building identified with that period has been excavated and a beautiful large mosaic from 1,600 years ago is being restored.

Perhaps the rarest Yavne discovery was an intact chicken egg from 1,000 years ago, found in the remains of a privy.