by Tony Cartledge | Jul 15, 2020 | Opinion
Long before the Israelites inhabited Palestine, long before the Canaanites, long before the Natufians, peoples roamed the land. As part of the land bridge linking Africa to both Europe and the East, the earliest humans who came out of Africa would have come through...
by rhicks | Jun 16, 2020 | Opinion
We’ve heard of “high church” worship, the kind of liturgy that includes robes and processions and formal hymns with no one directing the music, maybe even the occasional scent of incense. In a surprise finding, archaeologists have learned that some...
by Yohanna Katanacho | Jan 30, 2020 | Opinion
President Trump is suggesting releasing the prisoners, helping the refugees, liberating lands, bringing security, ending wars and offering financial success in his recent “Peace to Prosperity” document. He wants to build a sophisticated economy, transportation and...
by Tony Cartledge | Nov 18, 2019 | Opinion
Doing archaeology is hard work under any circumstances, not just in the physical labor of uncovering ancient layers of civilizations, but also in walking the tightrope of ethical propriety. Such an issue is plaguing a newsworthy excavation in East Jerusalem: an...
by Alex Awad | Oct 15, 2019 | Opinion
Israel’s apologists never seem to tire of pointing a finger of accusation at the Palestinian Authority with allegations that it persecutes Palestinian Christians. Hence, they say, the decline of the indigenous Christian population in the Palestinian territories. Jesus...
