Statistician Learn about the importance of the field of statistics and how it is applied in archaeology, specifically in the assessment of archaeological findings, such as tombs and ossuaries. Meet Andrey Feuerverger, professor in the Department of...

Discover the archaeologists who have come together to decipher one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Meet Shimon Gibson and Amos Kloner, and learn about their academic backgrounds and their exciting contributions to...

The inscriptions on the ossuaries found in the Talpiot Tomb in 1980 by a bulldozer read as follows: Ossuary 80/500: �Mariamene e Mara� � �Mariamne, also called Master� Ossuary 80/501: �Yehuda bar Yeshua� � �Judah, son of Jesus� Ossuary 80/502: �Matia�...

Ossuary 80/504 Yose� or �Yosa�� a nickname for �Joseph� The fourth inscription, written in Hebrew, reads: �Yose.� Where have we seen this name before? It turns out that Yose is to Yosef as Joey is to Joseph. Yose...

Ossuary 80/502: �Matia� � �Matthew� The third inscription, written in Hebrew, reads: �Matia.� This is the original form of the English �Matthew�, and it leads us to more questions than answers. We know that Jesus was the son of Joseph,...

Oded Golan is a controversial figure, an Israeli engineer, a former army officer in the Israel Defence Force, and a Biblical antiquities dealer. Golan is the collector behind such artifacts as the Jehoash Inscription, a...

Ossuary 80/509 disappeared before it could be checked for inscriptions and decorations. There were ten ossuaries in the tomb discovered in 1980. Ten catalogued. The tenth went missing. It was not photographed like the others. The measurements for it were...

James Ossuary It came to light in 2002. A first-century ossuary or bone box, decorated and inscribed. The ancient writing, once deciphered, was stunning in its simplicity and amazing in its implications: �James, son of Joseph, brother...