A reddish-brown scarab.

A half shekel.

A 5th-century mosaic is a symbol of Jewish defiance.

Settlement always returned to the Western Negev.

Burnt bricks.

And receive a “good-citizenship” certificate.

Possibly built centuries before King David.

And the geopolitics of the Bronze Age Levant.

The Qurayyah oasis.

Lessons from ceramic shards.

And the origins of myths about it.

Casting doubt on the Mount Ebal “curse tablet.”

A Civil War chaplain and a forged statue of a Near Eastern goddess.

The Isle of Elephantine.