Weekend Roundup

A burial cave from the Second Temple period was discovered underneath a building in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem. All Israel News summarizes the case that el-Araj is biblical Bethsaida, including news from this summer’s excavation. After sixteen years of uninterrupted excavations—even during COVID and wars—i24 News visited Azekah. The excavator “said his dream is for visitors within about four years to walk through the citadel’s high walls and inner structures and along the street surrounding the fortress.” A study of a tomb chamber in the Theban necropolis was carried out “to reconstruct how this burial space was used and reused between its construction during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (754–656 BCE) and the Ptolemaic period (305–30 BCE).” “A new archaeological discovery at Tell Abu Saifi in Qantara East, Ismailia, is shedding new light on the ancient Horus Military Road and strengthening the hypothesis that the site may be linked to the lost ancient Egyptian city of ‘Mesen.’” “The pillar of St. Simeon the Stylite was returned to its original location at the Monastery of St. Simeon on Mount Simeon, northwest of Holeb (Aleppo), Syria, on Tuesday, 16 centuries after it was ere...