“By using chemical analysis, AI, paleography, and codicology, the researchers hope to gain some insight into not only where the scrolls were produced, but why they were placed in the caves. Their research might help to answer whether the caves were hiding places or simply low-tech libraries.” - CPost
“The debate follows comments from researcher Andrew Jones, whose team at Noah’s Ark Scans says it has uncovered new evidence at a site near Mount Ararat. The formation, first identified in 1959, has long been the subject of speculation.” - CPost
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“Some … accuse Christianity of stealing the “death-and-resurrection-of-a-god” motif from other religions. However, scholars have rightly pointed out that stories of the death and resurrection of other gods, such as Dionysus and Adonis, post-date Christianity” - Associates for Biblical Research
“It isn’t surprising that artifacts from this rich history will be found, but when they are, it’s a good reminder of how Christianity spread. It should also remind us that it’s not so much that Christianity is Western, but that Western culture is at root Christian.” - Breakpoint
“the Bethesda Pool is described as having five porticoes—a puzzling feature suggesting an unusual five-sided pool, which most scholars dismissed as an unhistorical literary creation.
“The Mosaic Church (2025) is an engaging new documentary film about an extraordinary archeological discovery of recent times.” - Imaginative Conservative
“While the idea that this area houses the legendary life-raft — an object central to Christianity, Judaism and Islam — is a topic of dispute, recent scans appear to indicate that it could be the case.” - NY Post
“The amulet shows that Christianity had spread further north into Germania more quickly than we previously realized. We know there was a robust presence of Christianity north of the Alps in places like Lyons, Gaul (modern-day Lyon, France), where Irenaeus ministered as a priest from AD 161–80.” - TGC
“On the eastern slopes of the City of David, just a few hundred yards away from the Temple Mount, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority claim to have uncovered a second temple.” - Biblical Archaeology Society
“…in the Mishnaic passage prescribing food for a woman separated from her husband, ‘wine was not included in the minimum diet … The Tosefta reports that a woman “has no claim for wine, for the wives of the poor do not drink wine.”’ Accordingly, wine seems to have been a more common drink among the wealthy.” - Biblical Archaeology Society
