Tag: Lawrence E. Stager

  • Nation & World

    Unearthed bones bring Philistines to life

    A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Frank Moore Cross

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Cross was well-known for his scholarship on the Dead Seas Scrolls and he…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Archaeology team helps find oldest deep-sea shipwrecks

    About 2,700 years ago, two Phoenician ships sank to the Mediterranean’s muddy bottom, where they lay upright, preserved in the relative stillness and tremendous pressure of the deep, dark waters.…

    1 minute