This is what you call a terrible testimony: “Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with DOJ.” From the article: Federal prosecutors say that when Hobby Lobby, which is based in Oklahoma City, began assembling its collection it was...
Indiana Jones
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 158: The Fate of the Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant is well-known because of the popular Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. That pop culture film offers just one of over a dozen theories on what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. The question arises because the ark is not one of the...
New Testament Textual Criticism: Search for Manuscripts Goes On
For those interested in NT textual criticism, here’s a nice piece on Dan Wallace and the work of the CSNTM (Center for the Study of NT Manuscripts). Hard to believe Dan is sixty!
Antikythera Mechanism Report
Thanks go to Charles Jones at Ancient World Online for posting this “pre-print” article, “ The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism ” (due to the size, it is best to right-click and “Save File As”; you will also have to re-size the...
The Peruvian "Alien Skull"
If you’ve surfed the web at all in the last day or two you have probably heard about this “discovery.” One piece I saw on Yahoo News described the skeletal remains in the picture below as those of a “giant-headed mummy” with a...
The Bones of John the Baptist?
Have they been found?  You don’t know how badly I want to say they were inside Noah’s ark and now brought forth by the Chinese team. 🙂  (You do now). A link to this article was sent to me today (thanks to Doug in Colorado). Here’s my favorite part of...
Antikythera Mechanism Rebuilt – Replica Works Perfectly
This is pretty cool. So what does this ancient machine do? “In short, Antikythera’s user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the...
Recent Scholarly Article on Antikythera Mechanism
The major scientific journal Nature published an article on the famous Antikythera Mechanism in 2006. You can access the article as a PDF file here. For a bibliography on the mechanism, check out this page at the very cool website devoted to it. Editor's note:...
The Crystal Skulls: Not Alien Relics (What a Shocker)
It just kills me how, when certain people find an impressive work of craftsmanship or art that appears old they conclude it must be alien. “I couldn’t have made anything like that, and no one I know could have, either. They must have an extraterrestrial...