When in Doubt, Make It Religious

We have written on this topic before or have mentioned it in different articles. But it is an important one to talk about. What makes us write about it today is that the book we have been using for topics to write about made a confession in its last few pages. Religion is the last

The Assumptions You Start With

Will determine the conclusions you come to. These words including the title are a mild paraphrase from the book Dismantling the Big Bang and are found on pg. 16 of that work. Those words are true and apply to both archaeology and anthropology. We find many examples of the application of those words in the

Archaeology & Forgeries

We have written on this topic before but it is worth talking about some more. It is a serious problem in this research field as an unmeasurable amount of information disappears into private collections. You can read our previous articles here & here. You can also read our short article on looting by clicking that

The Practical Archaeologist

In this book review, we will talk about the work in the title which was written by Jane McIntosh. it was first published by The Paul Press Ltd. in 1986. We do not know how many editions it has gone through since that time as ours is close to a first edition. It doesn’t say

Mysterious Structures

Things archaeology cannot explain If you had studied any type of history, you would have probably learned about the many mysterious structures found worldwide. Unfortunately, those mysterious structures have often been named and credited to different people groups. Even though the evidence is not compelling and despite confessions from those people groups that those structures

Archaeology & the Bible

Introduction When it comes to archaeology, far too many people put their hope and faith in this field of research. Little do they know that many archaeologists demote the Bible to a human document and discount it as a historical resource. Some who consider the Bible to be no more than a human document, point

Biblical Archaeology: What You Need to Know

#1. The Definition Before we get too far along it is important to know the definition of this subfield of Archaeology. The difficulty with knowing the definition of Biblical Archaeology is that different scholars will have different ideas about how it is defined. One definition is as follows: Biblical archaeology is that branch of Biblical

More About Archaeology

The beginning If you thought that archaeology was a newer science, then you would not have the right answer, at least in most scholars’ minds. Archaeology has its roots deeper than just the 17th or 18th centuries when modern archaeology arrived on the scene and began to develop its techniques and strategies. The people in

Avebury

The book ‘The Atlas of Mysterious Places’ calls Avebury An Ancient Fertility Centre. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen. Everyone has heard of Stonehenge yet that ancient site pales in size when compared to Avebury. The site, as it stood in 1987 and probably still has the same dimensions today is:

As promised

The sale is called ‘holiday sale’ and 5 books have been reduced in price. The sale is for e-books only, sorry about that but it is harder to schedule a print-on-demand sale. The 5 books are: The Future of Biblical Archaeology The Church & Science: Get All the Facts Noah’s Flood Did Take Place: An