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Ex-@AP #Jerusalem
Bylines in @washingtonpost, @sciam, @ft, @wsj, @archaeologymag, @afp, etc
@UofT alum, #rhodeisland diaspora
RT≠anything

[Religion News Association @ReligionReport]

Renner Award for Enterprise & Serials:

1st Place - Peter Smith, Giovanna Dell'Orto, Luis Andres Henao, Natacha Pisarenko, Chinedu Asadu, Jessie Wardarski, Deepa Bharath, Mariam Fam, Ilan Ben Zion, Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press

[Narragansett Beer @Gansettbeer]

Happy Fourth of July! If this post gets 10k likes we'll bring it back for the 250th anniversary next year.

We're proud to be an American-made beer made on honor, sold on merit.

#HiNeighbor #GansettBeer #NarragansettBeer #BeerPorn #July4

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

Behind the scenes as archaeologists and ROV operators retrieve two 3,300 year old Canaanite storage jars from a shipwreck 1800m below the Mediterranean.
Read more on @sciam
https://t.co/M9ErSd9ypF

[Scientific American @sciam]

The oldest deep-sea shipwreck, discovered off the coast of Israel, is a 'time capsule' from the Bronze Age https://t.co/UsP74sBQoD

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

Behind the scenes as archaeologists and ROV operators retrieve two 3,300 year old Canaanite storage jars from a shipwreck 1800m below the Mediterranean.
Read more on @sciam
https://t.co/M9ErSd9ypF

[Eric H. Cline @digkabri]

Amidst other reports, here is a nice article in Scientific American by Ilan Ben Zion, which has a few quotes from me, along with Shelley Wachsmann.

https://t.co/qN8P0A8u7L

[Scientific American @sciam]

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization https://t.co/NmL4nexZ8c

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

@davidwengrow @lemossrennan Where can one find a copy of his aforementioned 1989 article?

[Chico Menashe צ'יקו מנשה @chicomenashe]

https://t.co/e7GZsgiMlE

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK I'm no expert, but the ancients would have pronounced it with a hard "c," as the Greek and Latin spellings suggest and as preserved in the Babylonian Talmud: "Akteisfon" (אקטיספון). Pronunciation in English, like the modern Persian spelling, seems to be tɛsɪˌfɒn

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

@DalrympleWill very much enjoy @EmpirePodUK, and hate to nitpick, but no sibilant at start of Ctesiphon

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

Wineries near Lebanon fear harvest failure as war with Hezbollah looms https://t.co/bMlRg2dCQr

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

@mokhbersahafi Please follow for DM

[فرانس برس بالعربية @AFPar]

بعباءاتهم السوداء وقبعاتهم التقليدية، وقف شيوخ من الدروز أمام نعش الجندي الإسرائيلي عدي مالك حرب الذي قتل أثناء مشاركته في المعارك ضد حركة حماس في قطاع #غزة.

https://t.co/G2z428fRsx #فرانس_برس

✍️ @IlanBenZion

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

@nisreen_abo היי, את יכולה לעקוב בחזרה להודעה פרטית?

[David Crary @CraryAP]

Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic near Armageddon. Where it could go next sparks outcry — possibly the Museum of the Bible in Washington (from @AP) https://t.co/TlhPu2oJQ4

[iℓɑƞ ᛒεƞ ȝıoƞ @IlanBenZion]

Important thread by archaeologist digging at Legio about IAA proposal to loan the Megiddo Mosaic to the Museum of the Bible:

[Candida Moss @candidamoss]

Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic near Armageddon. Where it could go next sparks outcry https://t.co/CFxXeIlp8W

@news_ub

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic, send it to US Evangelical museum https://t.co/jxMwEOWMbp