Lost treasures of the Bible: understanding the Bible through archaeological artifacts in world museums

Creation and flood stories. Enuma Elish, the epic of creation

Sumerian creation myths

The epic of Atrahasis

The epic of Gilgamesh

Sumerian King list

Israel's ancestral, Exodus, and settlement periods. Ram caught in a thicket

The Rosetta Stone

Amarna tablets

Akhenaten: Stela and panel, adoration of the Aten

The birth legend of Sargon

The mummy of Ramesses II

Mud brick of Ramesses II

The treaty of Kadesh

The law code of Hammurabi

Middle Assyrian laws, Tablet A

Merneptah stela (or, Israel stela)

Calf statuette and model shrine

Philistine cult stand with musicians

Stela of Baal of the Lightning

Cylinder seal of El and Baal

Myths of the Baal cycle

The period of the monarchy. Gezer calendar

Mesha stela (Moabite stone)

Tel Dan inscription

Ivory plaque mentioning Hazael

Samaria ivories

Nimrud ivories

The Kurkh monolith of Shalmaneser III

The black obelisk of Shalmaneser III

Shema seal of Megiddo

Reliefs from the central palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud

Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III

Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad

The epitaph of Uzziah

Seal of Shebnayau, servant of Uzziah

Hezekiah's tunnel inscription

Horned altar of Beer-Sheba

Sanctuary of Arad

Shebna inscription from Silwan

The Taylor prism

Bull inscription of Sennacherib: the tribute of Hezekiah

Scenes from Sennacherib's southwest palace at Nineveh

Siege of Lachish

Stela of Esarhaddon

Stela of Ashurbanipal

Wall reliefs from Ashurbanipal's palaces at Nineveh

Tablet naming Gyges of Lydia

Cylinder of Nabopolassar

Babylonian chronicle, 616-609 B.C.E.

The fall of Nineveh

Ishtar gate and processional way of Babylon

Arad Ostracon mentioning "House of Yahweh"

Babylonian chronicle, 605-595 B.C.E.

The capture of Jerusalem

Lachish letters

Babylonian rations: the Judean royal house as prisoners.

The period of the Babylonian exile. Lamentation over the destruction of Ur

The Nabonidus chronicle

Nabonidus cylinder mentioning Belshazzar

The legend of Aqhat

Poetry and wisdom literature. Sumerian proverbs tablet

Sumerian love poem

The great hymn to Osiris

Dialogue between a man and his God

Ludlul Bel Nemeqi, "the Babylonian job"

The Persian period. The Cyrus cylinder

Frieze of archers

Column capital from Persepolis

Silver bowl of Artaxerxes I

Column base with inscription of Artaxerxes II

The Hellenistic period

Statue and head of Alexander the Great

Head and coin of Antiochus IV

The Roman period. Equestrian statue of Augustus

Bust and silver Denarius of Tiberius

The Galilee boat

Pontius Pilate inscription

Ossuary of the High Priest Caiaphas

Heel bone of a crucifixion victim

Ossuary of Simon, "Builder of the Temple"

"Place of trumpeting" inscription

Temple warning inscription

Head of Caligula

Head of Claudius

The Gallio inscription at Delphi

Letter from Apion

Diploma granting Roman citizenship

Market gate of Miletus

Winged victory of Samothrace

Statues of Artemis

Theodotus Synagogue inscription

Synagogue inscription at Corinth

Model body parts dedicated to Asclepius

Politarch inscription at Thessalonica

Relief of Praetorian guard

Head of Nero

Menorah and burnt house

Head of Vespasian and statue of Titus

Judea Capta coin

The great altar of Pergamum

Head and arm of a statue of Domitian

Statue of Trajan.

Ancient biblical texts. Silver scroll amulets: the oldest Biblical text ever discovered

The Isaiah scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Aleppo Codex

Papyrus 52: Oldest fragment of the New Testament

Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Alexandrinus

The Gospel of Thomas from the Nag Hammadi writings

Sensational finds: genuine of forgery? The James ossuary, the Ivory Pomegranate, and the Baruch Bulla.