The Siege of Jerusalem
The siege of Jerusalem in the year 70CE was a decisive event in the first Jewish-Roman War. It…
Israeli archaeologists excavating the Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park recently unearthed a rare First Temple-era clay seal (“bulla”) and a 2,600-year-old seal with a faint blue hue about one centimeter in diameter inscribed with the name “Ikar, Son of Matanyahu,” CBN News reported.
Two noteworthy archaelogists have been extensively studying a Khirbet Qeiyafa (translating to the English as “two gates”), a hilltop site about 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem overlooking the Elah Valley high in the Judean hills where the Biblical battle between David and Goliath is believed to have taken place.
A recently released documentary, Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, has gone viral online, vividly proposing some scholars’ theories that the 8,460 foot mountain peak in Saudi Arabia – Jabal Maqla, the “Mountain of Almonds” as translated in English, in the Jabal al-Lawz mountain range in the northwestern part of the Islamic country near the Jordanian border – matches the biblical description of Mount Sinai where Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people.