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Tuesday September 8, 2009
Archeology • Islam:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as “the rose-red city, ‘half as old as time,’” and which provided the climactic backdrop for “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” But far fewer know Madain Saleh, a similarly spectacular treasure built by the same civilization, the Nabateans.
That’s because it’s in Saudi Arabia, where conservatives are deeply hostile to pagan, Jewish and Christian sites that predate the founding of Islam in the 7th century.
But now, in a quiet but notable change of course, the kingdom has opened up an archaeology boom by allowing Saudi and foreign archaeologists to explore cities and trade routes long lost in the desert.
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Wednesday August 27, 2008
Archeology:
JERUSALEM — In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file — among the most sought-after and examined documents on earth — available to all on the Internet. [video] » Full Story
Sunday July 6, 2008
Archeology:
A tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
According to this article, “If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time.”
Yet the Old Testament includes hundreds of prophecies regarding the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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According to this article, “If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time.”
Yet the Old Testament includes hundreds of prophecies regarding the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Friday August 31, 2007
Archeology:
Islamic authorities responsible for Haram as-Sharif, known to Jews as Temple Mount, said digging a trench was necessary to replace 40-year-old electrical cables. They called the Israeli group’s charges on Thursday “sheer propaganda.”
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Wednesday May 9, 2007
Archeology:
Following a long quest in search of King Herod’s tomb, an archaeologist announced Tuesday that he found what appears to be the ornate remains of the famous Roman era king’s burial site on the edge of the Judean Desert.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus • The Jesus Tomb:
Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.
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Monday March 12, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
Just as freshly sprouted daffodils indicate the imminent arrival of spring, so the pop culture’s yearly discovery (and exploitation) of Jesus Christ heralds the upcoming celebration of the Easter holiday.
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Sunday March 4, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
Attempts to debunk Christianity have become traditional Easter-season fare in recent years.
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Saturday March 3, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
In a surreal moment on “Larry King Live” earlier this week, the film’s producer, James Cameron (of “Titanic” fame), told us with a straight face that we should all be thankful that we now have tangible evidence that Jesus existed. Actually, no serious historian of biblical antiquity has ever doubted that there was a historical Jesus.
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Wednesday February 28, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
Claims that the burial site of Jesus, his wife and son have been found in an ancient family cemetery in Jerusalem have been criticised by researchers as fanciful.
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Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
“The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” which premieres March 4 on the Discovery Channel, chronicles recent efforts to apply modern science and new understanding of Jesus and his followers to the 1980 discovery of a set of ossuaries, or “bone boxes,” under what is now an apartment complex near Jerusalem.
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Tuesday February 27, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
The film has also sent shockwaves throughout the Christian world, shaking the foundation of a religion established on the tenets that Jesus, a single man who never married, was crucified, died, and was resurrected. (That’s ABC News’ take. Christians simply see the documentary for what it is: yet another hoax based on fantasy and speculation).
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Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
To resolve the question of whether the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene may have rested in two limestone boxes discovered in a Jerusalem suburb, the filmmakers of a new documentary took novel approaches – including turning to statisticians. Some religious scholars and archaeologists, however, have not been convinced by the numbers.
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Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
Transcript of Larry King’s interview with the maker of the documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus
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Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
The Discovery TV Channel has released new details of the “Lost Tomb of Jesus” documentary that is to be officially launched at a New York press conference on Monday, including the claim that Jesus was buried in a Jerusalem tomb alongside Mary Magdalene and, possibly, their son Judah.
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Monday February 26, 2007
Archeology • Hoaxes • Lost Tomb of Jesus:
The makers of a new documentary, to be aired for the first time at a news conference in New York on Monday, claim that a tomb found in a Jerusalem cave 36 years ago belongs to Jesus Christ.
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Archeology • Hoaxes • The Jesus Tomb:
In a scene worthy of a Dan Brown novel, archaeologists a quarter of a century ago unearthed a burial chamber near Jerusalem. Inside they found ossuaries, or boxes of bones, marked with the names of Jesus, Joseph and Mary. Then one of the ossuaries went missing. The human remains inside were destroyed before any DNA testing could be carried out. While Middle East academics doubt that the relics belong to the Holy Family, the issue is about to be exposed to a blaze of publicity with the publication next week of a book.
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Thursday January 4, 2007
Archeology:
Researchers say their discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world’s most important archaeological sites sheds new light on whether the ancient community was home to the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Thursday December 7, 2006
Archeology:
Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome’s second largest basilica.
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Tuesday November 14, 2006
Archeology:
The young male zealots who established their sect at Qumran chose a life of austerity and isolation, but they could not have foreseen the hardships created by their religiously imposed toilet practices, researchers said Monday.
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Tuesday August 15, 2006
Archeology:
New archaeological evidence is raising more questions about the conventional interpretation linking the desolate ruins of an ancient settlement known as Qumran with the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in nearby caves in one of the sensational discoveries of the last century.
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Friday July 28, 2006
Archeology:
It's not the end of the world, experts announced today. The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near.
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Archeology:
A thousand-year-old Book of Psalms has been discovered by a construction worker in a bog in Ireland.
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Friday June 30, 2006
Archeology:
Christian Archaeology Team Believes It Has Found the Ark
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Thursday April 6, 2006
Archeology:
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Archeologists announced on Wednesday they have discovered a massive 6th-century Indian pyramid beneath a centuries-old Catholic religious site.
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