Researchers reconstruct biblical military campaigns using magnetic data
The study results verify biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
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The study results verify biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Magnetic field reconstruction matched battle sites to Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns recounted in the Bible.
Archeologists began using magnetic surveying techniques in the 1950s, with advances in technology and the accumulation of data enabling them to receive more... 25.10.2022, Sputnik International
The new data verify the biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
TAU and the Hebrew University collaborated on a study that precisely dated 21 destruction levels at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by recreating the direction and/or strength of the earth's magnetic field recorded in charred residues.