Matti Friedman

The Jerusalem-based journalist Matti Friedman is the author, most recently, of Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.

Carved by industrious miners thousands of years ago, countless shafts wend through the desert of the Timna Valley.

An Archaeological Dig Reignites the Debate Over the Old Testament's Historical Accuracy

Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon

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