I told you in the last Nugget that the key that clinched the theory for Sir Alan Gardiner was the discovery of a unique bilingual inscription on a small sphinx with the meaning of the inscription left in a two parallel texts – one Egyptian …
Biblical Archaeology Nuggets
The Serabit Alphabet and the Link Between Ancient and Modern Languages
As I have demonstrated in past Nuggets, the Canaanite alphabet discovered at Serabit El-Khadem was the bridge between ancient pictographic writing systems and the beginnings of phonetic based scripts we are familiar with in the writing systems of languages of the world today. The Cuneiform …
Sennacherib’s Prism
Did the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib as described in 2 Kings 18:17-19:37 truly happen or was it just a Hebrew myth? Many world experts think it was a myth. These people think that it’s a story recorded in the Bible to raise the level …
Nabonidus Cylinder
Critics love to cast doubt on the integrity of the Bible by pointing to Daniel Five. Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom. …
Noah’s Flood seen through different accounts
For some it’s hard to swallow to accept the Noahic account of a world-wide flood as found in the Bible. But there are actually four ancient flood accounts which survive from the Ancient Near East. Biblical (hero Noah) Babylonian (hero Atrahasis) Akkadian (hero Utnapishtim) Sumerian …
Was Noah’s Flood Worldwide?
There is much debate as to whether the flood, as recorded in the Bible, covered the world or was just localized to the area of the Ancient Near East. The Biblical account is clear when it records, “Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains …
Is There Evidence For Noah’s Ark and What About the Matter of Long Ages?
A number of readers have asked the same two recurring questions which I will address: Has evidence been found for Noah’s Ark? How do you reconcile the millions of years of evolution with the Bible timeline of thousands of years? Allow me to address those …