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.

Some historians and scholars of ancient linguistics believe that the Hebrew language, subsequently morphing into a dead language but later revived by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in the late 19th century, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics.

A stone weight was unearthed from the foundation stones of the Western Wall and was probably used in the first Temple.

A 1500 year old mosaic floor, with a Greek inscription, was discovered near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

Did you know that Shiloh was the capital of the Jewish Kingdom for 369 years? When King David became King he then made Jerusalem our capital city.

Jerusalem of Gold: The spectacular gold earring, shaped like a horned animal, dates back to the second or third century BCE, during the Hellenistic period.

Dr. Scott Stripling, head of the current excavation at biblical Shiloh, loves how the Bible comes alive in the dirt.

The history of ancient Israel in 5 minutes.