Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

Tune in this Thursday (Oct 29) at 12pm (PST) for the first lecture in our New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia lecture series! Dr. Salim Faraji will present on the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma! http://bit.ly/arf-channel

Happy International Archaeology Day!

Join us at 12pm PST on October 29 for the first lecture in our new series New perspectives on Ancient Nubia hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley, Dr. Salim Faraji (California State University, Dominguez Hills) will present The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel

The Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley presents our new series New perspectives on Ancient Nubia. The series brings together a diverse group of scholars whose research explores various aspects of the archaeology, art, and history of ancient Nubia, the region of modern-day southern Egypt to central Sudan. Join us for these lectures, which will run from October 2020 through May 2021, starting October 29th at noon PST. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel

What was daily life like in the ancient world? How was it similar and different from life today? These are the questions addressed in our latest exhibit. This virtual exhibition, titled Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town, features a selection of objects from the museum’s archaeological collection, offering viewers a glimpse into the lifestyles and culture of those living in the land of Israel in the first millennium BCE. https://storymaps.arcgis.com//0d0e88d8968044128021d71b1ef8

Want to know what we've been up to while working from home? Check out our latest Updates from Home video to learn more about our exciting upcoming virtual programming at the Bade Museum! https://youtu.be/6XxF4KwrSu0

The Badè Museum has more than 200 ceramic lamps in its collection! Check out our new video on a Canaanite saucer lamp, which will be featured in our digital exhibition Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town! This upcoming virtual exhibition features a selection of objects from the museum’s archaeological collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Shanah Tovah! #FlashbackFriday to our exhibition "To Everything There Is A Season," which featured Naomi Teplow's beautiful ketubot. Rejoice In Thy Festival illustrates the ever-changing flow of the seasons, as marked by the major holidays of the Jewish year. The Bade Museum wishes everyone a happy Rosh Hashanah! https://www.ketubotbynaomi.com/ketu/rejoice-in-thy-festival

The Bade Museum has some exciting fall programming centered on Nubia that we will be announcing soon! To get ready we'll be checking out NubiaFEST 2020 next week! These talks and events are sponsored by the Nubia Initiative and the Union for Nubian Studies. https://nubiafest.unionfornubianstudies.org/

Check out this New York Times article on the remains of a Phoenician shipwreck! https://www.nytimes.com//archaeology-phoenician-israel-sha

Our quest to digitize our collection and make it accessible to the public is ongoing! We're happy to report that earlier this year we submitted another portion of our collection to Open Context. Open Context aims to publish research data on the web, and we are happy to a part of this open-access project! Check it out and let us know your favorite objects! #BadeMuseum #archives #archaeology #TellEnNasbeh #OpenContext https://opencontext.org//B4345F6A-F926-4062-144E-3FBC175CC

Director Aaron Brody's letter to the editor of ANE Today was recently featured on the ASOR blog. Check it out! http://www.asor.org//20/07/brody-letter-to-anetoday-editor

The original article detailing the strontium isotope analysis of Tell el-Dab'a individuals can be found here! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

A study conducted by Tell el-Dab'a team members and published in PLOS ONE, suggests that the Hyksos rise to power was not the result of invasion but rather internal control of power. Strontium isotope analysis, which can tell us about past mobility and the origin of an individual or group, indicates the Hyksos were not from a unified origin place but rather came from a variety of places within the Levant, moved to Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, and gradually rose to power. https://www.sciencemag.org//invasion-ancient-egypt-may-hav