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Jul 19, 2026, 4:41 PM

Jerusalem to Judean Desert: Was Persian Qanat system Adapted in the Biblical Age?

Was the Persian Qanat Technology Adapted in the Land of Israel for Flash Flood and Surface Runoff Management? It is intriguing to consider the possibility that as early as the sixth century BCE, during the late First Temple period and...

Nachliel Selavan

Jul 16, 2026, 10:27 PM

Samson and the Giant from the Arbel

Blog post for Parashat Devarim 5786/2026 Caution: Giants! “What is the difference between your expectations and the reality of Israel?” my parents asked a group of Australian teenagers visiting Israel for the first time, seated in my parents’ living room in...

Benjamin Adam Saidel

Jul 10, 2026, 6:02 AM

What do Tom Barrack and Türkiye’s President Recep Erdoğan have in common?

Tell Fekheriye, northeastern Syria, viewed from the east (photo: Sebastian Hageneuer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons). The Armenian cemetery discussed in the text lies beyond the visible portion of the site and is not shown in this photograph.

More than you might think. Both have portrayed the Armenian Genocide, in which up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed, as something open to question rather than as a historical fact. Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Türkiye and Special...

David H. Spalter

Jul 8, 2026, 9:58 PM

The Pilgrimage Road: We Will Always Pass This Way

In their 1973 hit, Seals & Crofts coined the phrase “we may never pass this way again” as an expression of the importance of embracing life’s fleeting moments. Through my personal travels, this phrase has often come to mind...

Jul 3, 2026, 12:23 PM

Israel, Palestine, and Canaan: Myth, Archaeology, History, and Geopolitics

Who Belongs to the Levant? Why the Question Resists a Single Answer The competing claims to the Levant are routinely framed as a binary historical contest: one people was here first, therefore the land belongs to them. That framing is...

Silas Anastacio

Jun 22, 2026, 5:57 AM

IBArq: Rediscovering Biblical History and the Roots of Western Civilization

In an era marked by debates on identity, culture, and historical memory, interest is growing in understanding the origins of Western civilization and the context in which the biblical texts—works that have influenced generations for millennia—first emerged. This is the...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 16, 2026, 6:10 PM

Francesca’s Colonialism

Francesca Albanese has emerged as the UN’s loudest activist, not because she has uncovered anything new, but because she applies a single academic framework to every conflict she addresses. Her method is simple. History is reduced to two roles,...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:46 AM

Truths and Constructed Myths Regarding the Jewish Presence in Albania

The tendency to produce, package, and instrumentalize myths for specific purposes—whether individual, collective, historical, or political—is considered “normal” in the Balkan Peninsula. It suffices that such actions yield the desired effect or outcome for those who construct, package, or...

Jun 14, 2026, 10:26 PM

Why I Traveled to Jordan Just to See a Map

The author standing in front of the 6th-century Madaba map, pointing to the section that depicts Jerusalem. (photo taken by the author)

Reflections on how a sixth-century mosaic in Jordan helped solve a Jerusalem mystery and uncover a lost city beneath the Jewish Quarter

Jun 7, 2026, 5:39 PM

The Seal and the River of Time

The Pashupati Seal A 4,300-year-old steatite seal found at Mohenjo-daro. May 27, 2026 (Source Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, X.)

A Meditation on the Pashupati Seal, the Indian Civilizational Continuum, and What Humanity Owes to the Clay’s Memory The Undeciphered Witness There are objects that survive. Then there are objects that remember. The Pashupati Seal of Mohenjo-daro, carved from steatite, no larger...

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