The Cline Strikes Back

In response to the report mentioned in the previous post, Eric writes (in comments, and elevated to the status of post itself here since some of you don’t read comments)
Jim —
I agree. Along those lines, I felt obliged to post a reply to that above article, as follows:
Chris — You might want to take a [...]

As Bad As The Times Caption Was, This Is Far Worse

I pointed Eric Cline to the Times photo caption and he replied with mention of this dreadful piece of misrepresentation.  Which is made worse, isn’t it, because it’s source of information about the Tel Dan stele is Wikipedia!  What ghastliness.
The ASOR Media Committee is really going to have its hands full.

If You’re Going to Talk About tel Dan, Don’t Label it ‘Ten Dan’

It just makes you look ignorant.  (And I have a screenshot below for the inevitable moment when someone at the Times bothers to proof read their copy.  And hey, the ‘l’ and the ‘n’ aren’t close enough together on the keyboard that it could actually be an accident anyway).

I’m saddened by their lack of attention [...]

Profound Dilettantism Plumbing the Depths Like No Other

And Bob Cargill dug it up. Or noticed it.  Or whatever term best suits you.
jim barfield and chris knight, amateur archaeologists and directors of the copper scroll project, have finally landed a primetime television interview!! the two met with glc (god’s learning channel) founders al and tommie cooper, live from their satellite-access living room studio. [...]

Pure Absurdity: The Trial of the Century

Joseph Lauer points out this Jerusalem Post essay about one of the central persons in the trial of the century going on (and on, and on, and on….) in Jerusalem:
After 65 years in the business, billionaire antiquities collector and jeweler-to-the-stars Shlomo Moussaieff merely has to lick clay to date it.
Read the essay, and [...]

Seems That Some of You Are Too Gullible

Because you actually bought the whole ‘persian army found’ silliness.  No such thing happened.

More Dilettantism

Michael Heiser points it out and makes all the relevant comments about the media’s latest doofiness concerning the so called ‘Gabriel Stone’ or ‘Vision of Gabriel’, etc., over here.  I’ve nothing to add.  He says it all, including
What dopes.
Which really does summarize the whole NatGeo project admirably.

Are Archaeologists Boozers?

Because if they aren’t, why are they being urged to booze it up??????  Pray, friends, for our colleagues in Archaeology!  They must be a besotted lot!!!
[And maybe that explains why they haven’t found all the stuff the Bible mentions- they’re too inebriated!

The Restoration of Tut’s Tomb

Will be aided by an American team.  You can hear the story on NPR here.
The tomb of Egypt’s Tutankhamen — more commonly referred to as King Tut — needs a little attention. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the U.S.-based Getty Conservation Institute are teaming up to restore the wall paintings that line the tomb’s [...]

More On Google ‘Sketch-Up’

One of the features of Google’s 3-d drawing program that is quite useful is the ‘model warehouse’.  In it you can find loads, and I mean loads of stuff already modeled and all you have to do is download it.  Here’s a copy of Herod’s temple which you can manipulate as you wish- decorating, expanding, [...]