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September 2021
Vol. 9, No. 9
Making, Trading and Consuming Phoenician Wine
By Adriano Orsingher, Jens Kamlah, Hélène Sader, Aaron Schmitt, Silvia Amicone and Christoph Berthold
Phoenicia was an ancient and acclaimed wine making region. New studies are showing how Phoenician wine was made at home and influenced viticulture around the Mediterranean. Read More
The Ancient Salt Industry on the Mediterranean Coast of Israel
By Ehud Galili and Sarah Arenson
Salt is essential to human life, but where does it come from? Archaeological evidence from the coast of Israel shows the ways in which the landscape was reshaped to extract salt from the ocean. Read More
Altered States and Paleolithic Caves
By Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar, Ran Barkai
Humans have been using caves for at least 100,000 years. Caves let humans get closer to the entities below, but does oxygen deprivation help create altered states and worldly wonders, often told but never seen? Read More
Royal Illness in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
By Isabel Cranz
Rulers getting sick is a serious problem for everyone, including writers of ancient texts. Was the cause royal sin or society itself? And does royal illness mean society is also doomed to fail? Read More
The Location of the Biblical ‘Red Sea’
By Barry J. Beitzel
The Exodus from Egypt was a foundational event for the Israelites. But where exactly did they cross the ‘Red Sea’? Scholars have debated this question for centuries, as have mapmakers. Read More
