The findings match those previously recorded from the Wadi Faynan region of Jordan. In that study—led from the Hebrew ...
New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from ...
Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient mining and metallurgy were highly toxic and ...
The environmental pollution generated by ancient copper production was far less severe than previously thought.
According to the Bible, the Philistines encamped in this ... in 1940 that he had discovered the Edomite mines controlled by King Solomon. Subsequent British excavators believed they had found ...
Mazar: It seems to me that Jerusalem at the time of King David and King Solomon was very much like the Bible describes. It was monumental; the constructions were massive. They used the Phoenicians ...
Over time, she says, the mysterious queen, simply by being an “other” — a woman in a man’s world, a foreigner in King Solomon’s court — assumed a symbolic heft far greater than the one she’s accorded ...