B

Bethlehem & Herodium - King Herod literally "moved a mountain from one mountain to another" to build the Herodium, his final place of defense

Bethlehem - Byzantine Church of the Nativity, near the birthplace of Jesus

Bethlehem - Byzantine Church of the Nativity, near the birthplace of Jesus

Bethlehem - Byzantine Church of the Nativity, near the birthplace of Jesus

Bethlehem - Byzantine Church of the Nativity, near the birthplace of Jesus

Bethlehem - Oil Lamp at Arab Antique Dealer who originally purchased some of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Bethsaida - Fisherman House

Bethsaida Village

Beth Shean - Ampitheatre Pillars

Beth Shean - Pillars #1

Beth Shean - Pillars #2

Beth Shean - Pillars #3

Beth Shean - Pillars And Tel

Beth Shean - Stadium

C

Caesarea Maritima - Herod'sTemple

Caesarea Maritima - Hippodrome

Caesarea Maritima - Hippodrome Excavation

Caesarea Maritima - Hippodrome Platform

Caesarea Maritima - Pilate Inscription

Caesarea Maritima - Roman Aqueduct

Caesarea Maritima - Roman Aqueduct 2

Caesarea Maritima - Shoreline

Caesarea Maritima - Stadium #1

Caesarea Maritima - Stadium #2

Caesarea Maritima - Stadium #3

Caesarea Maritima - Stadium #4

Caesarea Philippi - Jordan River Beginning From Mount Herman Runoff

Caesarea Philippi - Possibly Gates Of Hades

Caesarea Philippi - Possibly Gates Of Hades

Caesarea Philippi - Possibly Gates Of Hades - Peter Lita Smith

Capernaum - Peter's House

Capernaum - Peter's House

Capernaum - Synagogue #1

Capernaum - Synagogue #2

Capernaum - Synagogue Entrance

D

Dead Sea - Jordan, Mount Nebo

E

Ein Kerem - Mary's Spring where tradition claims that Mary stopped here to visit her cousin Elizabeth who birthed John the Baptist

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Altar with horns

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Crucifixion tree cross style #1

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Crucifixion tree cross style #2

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Sepulchre tomb examples

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Papyrus that the scriptures were written on

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Mill Stone

Ein Kerem - Bible Lands Museum Tomb

Emmaus - Location where two disciples walked with the resurrected Christ when Jesus explained the scriptures to them

J

Jericho - Archeology

Jericho - Archeology

Jericho - Oasis In Judean Desert Wilderness

Jerusalem - Arab Section #1

Jerusalem - Arab Section #2

Jerusalem - Arab Section #3

Jerusalem - Arab Section #4

Jerusalem - Arab Section Child

Jerusalem - Arab Section Child #2

Jerusalem - Arab Section Children

Jerusalem - Burnt House destroyed by the Roman General Titus in 70 AD when the Temple was destroyed

Jerusalem - Burnt House destroyed by the Roman General Titus in 70 AD when the Temple was destroyed

Jerusalem - City Of David

Jerusalem - City Of David Joab's Tunnel

Jerusalem - Court Of Flagellation

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Ancient tombs where bodies were placed after death

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Ancient tombs where bodies were placed after death

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Column that includes all three column styles in one

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Tradition claims that the blood of Christ seaped into this crack

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Tradition claims that the blood of Christ seaped into this crack

Jerusalem - Church Of The Holy Sepulchre - Tradition claims that the blood of Christ seaped into this crack

Jerusalem - Damascus Gate Called the Shechem Gate by the Jews, the Arabs remember this gate as the "Gate of the Column" because of the tall pillar that stood in this gate's plaza during the Roman and Byzantine period. Kenyon's excavations underneath this Turkish gate found remnants of a triple-arched gateway dating to the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (135 A.D.).

Jerusalem - Hezekiah Tunnel - Entrance

Jerusalem - Hezekiah Tunnel - By Candle Light Without Guide

Jerusalem - Hinnom Valley (Gehennom) south of Temple Mount

Jerusalem - Hippodrome Next To Temple Mount

Jerusalem - House of Mark

Jerusalem - Kidron Valley South of Temple Mount

Kidron Valley - Field Of Akeldama

Kidron Valley - Tombs

Jerusalem - Kidron Valley South of Temple Mount

Jerusalem - King Hezekiah reinforced northwest city wall

Jerusalem - Lion's Gate

Jerusalem - Lion's Gate

Jerusalem - Map Mosaic from Jordan Church

Jerusalem - Model First Century

Jerusalem - Model Temple And Columnade

Jerusalem - Model Temple South Wall

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives - Cemetaries

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives - Camel Ride

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Gethsemane Garden

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Gethsemane Palm Sunday Road

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Gethsemane Prayer Cave

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Gethsemane Prayer Cave #2

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Shrines

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives With Syrian Christian Tour Guide

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Garden of Gethsemane

Jerusalem - Mount Of Olives Garden of Gethsemane - British Commonwealth Ministers & Teaching Ministry Seminar

Jerusalem - Old City

Jerusalem - Pool Of Siloam Washing

Jerusalem - Rex's Souveniers

Jerusalem - Temple Model

Jerusalem - Temple Mount From Fortress Antonia

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Arches underneath where the Torah scroll scriptures that Jews study are kept

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Arches underneath where the Torah scroll scriptures that Jews study are kept

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Arches underneath where the Torah scroll scriptures that Jews study are kept

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Dome Of The Rock On Temple Mount - Steve Staten, Mark Shaw, Andrew Kitchen, Rob Skinner

Jerusalem - Temple Institute Menorah

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Eastern Wall and Golden Gates looking across Kidron Valley from the Mount of Olives

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Eastern Wall looking across Kidron Valley from the Mount of Olives

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Museum

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Museum Sacrifices

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Museum Stone Lifting Example

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Roman road

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall & Western Wall Arches & Corner

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Steps

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Steps

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Steps

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Steps Mini Israel Model

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Mikveh for ceremonial washings and was most probably used for the first day of Jesus' church on Pentecost Day when 3,000 souls were baptized into Christ (Acts 2) - Cleansing from impurity took place in a ritual bath, a mikvah. These ritual baths could not be filled with a bucket. They had to be filled with "living" (naturally flowing) water. For many of these baths, such as those in the ritual bath buildings at the entrance to the Temple, this meant rainwater--water from heaven--a heavenly cleansing

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Triple Gates

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Southern Wall Triple Gates

Jerusalem - Tomb of King David

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wall Tunnel Largest Stone 54 Tons

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wall, South Side, and Eastern Graves on Mount of Olives

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wall Robinson Arch

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wall near Southwest Corner with Roman Road pummelled by the Temple stones thrown down on top of it from the top of the Temple Mount

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wall near Southwest Corner Inscription on a Stone thrown down from the top of the Temple Mount - "To the place of trumpeting...," was discovered during B. Mazar's excavations. It probably served to indicate where a priest would stand to blow the trumpet to begin and end the Sabbath. Josephus explained the procedure: "And the last [tower] was erected above the roof of the Priest's Chambers, where it was the custom for one of the priests to stand and to give notice, by the sound of a trumpet, in the afternoon of the approach, and on the following evening of the close, of every seventh day, announcing to the people the respective hours for ceasing work and for resuming their labors" (War 4.582-83). The southeast corner of the Temple Mount wall is known as "the pinnacle" of the Temple, towering 216 feet over the rocky ground below. In Jesus’ day when Solomon’s Portico stood atop this place, this corner may have been as much as 50 feet higher than it is today. It was here that the second temptation of Christ took place: And he [satan] led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; for it is written, He will give His angels charge concerning You, to guard You, and on their hands they will bear You up, lest You strike Your foot against a stone." And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test." (Luke 4:9-12; Deut. 6:16).

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall & Dome of the Rock - Mini Israel Model

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall On Passover

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Temple Mount Western Wailing Wall

Jerusalem - Tower Of David - Glass Show

Jerusalem - Jewish Guard With Gun at the end of the Western Wall Tunnel Tour

Jersalem - Jewish Ossuaries Full Of Bones From Graves

Jerusalem - Zion Gate - Providing access to Mt. Zion, this gate bears the marks of the Arab and Israeli battles in the 1948 War of Independence. This gate is also known as the Gate of the Prophet David because of the traditional location of David's tomb on Mt. Zion

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Shoreline from Ancient Joffa - Jonah Fled From Joppa, Tabitha resurrected through Peter (Acts 9:24-36), Peter had vision at the home of Simon the Tanner (Acts 10)

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Shoreline from Ancient Joffa

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Ancient Area with Ali Baba Sign

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Ancient Area

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Shoreline in the Downtown Center of Tel Aviv

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Shoreline

Joppa / Tel Aviv - Beach

Judean Desert Wilderness - Bedouin Shepherds

K

Korazin

M

Megiddo - Solomon's Chariot Horse Stalls

Megiddo - Solomonic Columns

Megiddo - Palm Dates

Mount Carmel - View Of Valley

Mount Carmel - Grave Typical First Century #1

Mount Carmel - Grave Typical First Century #2

Mount Of Beatitudes - Sea Of Galilee

Mount Of Beatitudes - Sea Of Galilee

Q

Qumran - Cave #4

Qumran - Jar That Held Dead Sea Scrolls

Qumran - Mikveh where ritual cleansings were done daily

S

Samuel Tomb - 8 miles west of Jerusalem

Samuel Tomb

Sea Of Galilee

Sea Of Galilee

Sea Of Galilee - Peter & Lita Smith

GCI Website

Biblical Archaeology Class 1 Overview

Biblical Archaeology Class 2 Old Testament 1

Biblical Archaeology Class 3 Old Testament 2

Biblical Archaeology Class 4 Old Testament 3

Biblical Archaeology Class 5 New Testament 1

Biblical Archaeology Class 6 New Testament 2

Biblical Archaeology Class 7 New Testament 3

Biblical Archaeology Class 8 New Testament 4

Berlin & Martin Luther's Wittenberg Photo Album

Cappadocia Churches Photo Album

Chicago Oriental Institute, Spertus Jewish Museum, & Field Museum of Natural History Photo Album

China Photo Album

Egypt & Israelite Exodus Photo Album

Greece & the Apostle Paul's Missionary Journeys Photo Album

Hittite Capital Hattusas Photo Album

Israel & Jerusalem Photo Album

Israel & Jerusalem PowerPoint Presentation

Italy Photo Album

London British Museum Photo Album

Los Angeles County Museum, Getty Museum, & Skirball Museum Photo Album

New York Museum of Art & Brooklyn Museum of Art Photo Album

Paris & Louvre Photo Album

Paris & Louvre PowerPoint Presentation

Petra Photo Album

San Francisco Museum of Art Photo Album

Spain Photo Album

Turkey & Seven Churches of Revelation Photo Album

Turkey & Seven Churches of Revelation PowerPoint Presentation

Urartu Photo Album

Washington Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Photo Album