1128 - Pseudo Archaeologists

On this week's program we discuss magazine items. That includes my column in the May issue of Christianity Today on pseudo-Archaeologists and several articles in the May-June issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. We also talked about pseudo-Archaeologists during our recent series of discussions with Eric Cline. The BAR discussions concerned the articles on Nebi Samuel, a mountain top site overlooking Jerusalem, and Engedi, a beautiful desert oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea with a fascinating archaeological history.

1127 - The Oldest Arched Gate in the World

The headline on the story we discuss to start this week's program is "The Oldest Arched Gate in the World." It's about the mudbrick gate at Ashkelon, which dates to about 1850 B.C., the Canaanite period, before the Philistines arrived. However, the Ashkelon Gate is not the only Bronze Age Mudbrick Arched Gate in Israel. There's also a gate at Tel Dan which is just about as old, maybe older.

On the second half of the program we discuss plans to create an archaeological park at Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.