Copper production associated with the mines of the Biblical King Solomon may not have harmed the workers involved—nor present a threat to locals in the present day. This is the conclusion of a ...

New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from ...

Solomon, the son of King David, was the focus of a chapter written between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, but it was not accepted into the canonical Bible due to its emphasis on magic and demonology.

According to the Bible, the Philistines encamped in this ... in 1940 that he had discovered the Edomite mines controlled by King Solomon. Subsequent British excavators believed they had found ...

Over time, she says, the mysterious queen, simply by being an “other” — a woman in a man’s world, a foreigner in King Solomon’s court — assumed a symbolic heft far greater than the one she’s accorded ...

Mazar: It seems to me that Jerusalem at the time of King David and King Solomon was very much like the Bible describes. It was monumental; the constructions were massive. They used the Phoenicians ...