Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  By Batsheva Sobelman Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on print Share on email More Sharing Services 4 Rock samples underwater for eons are likely to be better preserved, researchers say. Expectations are high that the lowest place on Earth can answer questions --- on climate change and other key matters JewishWorldReview.com | EAD SEA — (MCT) If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it. Scientists here are drilling 1,640 feet beneath the bottom of the Dead Sea, to a depth of more than 2,600 feet below sea level. Rock samples that have been underwater for eons are likely to be better preserved, they say, than samples taken from under an exposed surface, which can be damaged by aridity and erosion. As a result, the Dead Sea bore hole is expected to contain priceless information about the planet's past and to offer insight on its future. Expecta

 Sheila Berninger and Dorilona Rose    |   May 18, 2007 05:42am ET   This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. "This is not my day job," begins Michel Barsoum as he recounts his foray into the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. As a well respected researcher in the field of ceramics, Barsoum never expected his career to take him down a path of history, archaeology, and "political" science, with materials research mixed in. Professor Michel Barsoum stands before one of the Egyptian pyramids for which he has found evidence suggesting some of the stone blocks were cast, not quarried. Credit: Michel Barsoum, Drexel University View full size image              As a distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Science and Enginee

 by Damien F. Mackey Ahikar's Importance Biblical scholars could well benefit from knowing more about AHIKAR (or Ahiqar/Akhikar), the Chief Cup-bearer (Akkadian: Rabshakeh ) of Sennacherib, Great King of Assyria (ca. 700 BC), who was retained in power by Esarhaddon (Gk. Sacherdonos ) (Tobit 1:22, see below). This Ahikar, it will be found, was a vitally important eye-witness to some of the most extraordinary events of Old Testament history. He was at the very least, as we shall find: 1. a key link between the Book of Judith and those other books, Kings, Chronicles and Isaiah [KCI], that describe Sennacherib’s rise to prominence and highly successful first major invasion of Israel (historically his 3 rd campaign), and then 2. Sennacherib’s second major invasion of Israel and subsequent disastrous defeat there; and he was 3. an eyewitness in the east, as Tobit’s own nephew, to neo-Assyrian events as narrated in the Boo