Reconstructing biblical military campaigns using geomagnetic field data 🔓
#openAccess #biblicalHistory #geophysics
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209117119

This is so cool. Happy #Hanukkah, friends!

“Archaeologists have uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea. They say this is the first physical proof of something described in the Book of #Maccabees: That Jews fled to the Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the villain of the Hanukkah story.” #archeology #Israel #jewishlife #biblicalhistory https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-12-13/ty-article/israeli-archaeologists-find-proof-that-jews-fled-to-negev-after-revolt-2-200-years-ago/00000185-0699-dd32-a9cf-eef997d10000