Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society
Supporting archaeological research and excavation in Israel.
We are a charitable foundation offering regular public lectures, student grants, and an internationally-recognised journal, Strata. To learn more about the AIAS, click the home page link below.

AIAS Lecture January 2025 - Dr Nava Panitz

Collins and Najman 2024 - Origins and Resilience: The Vitality of Judaism

AIAS Shafer Elliott Israelite Households

AIAS lecture Ortiz 2024 Gezer

Hugh Williamson - Scrolls and Scribes: How Well Has the Bible Survived?

AIAS Jacobson 2023 Beginnings Judean Coinage

AIAS Rollston Schooling of a Scribe 2023

Dark 2023 Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth

Julia Hillner lecture — Fact and Fiction in the Empress Helena's Travels to the Holy Land

ERIC M. MEYERS — Jesus in Galilee

AIAS Reich Early Roman Jerusalem 2023

SHLOMIT WEKSLER-BDOLAH — Herodian Jerusalem in Light of New Finds from the Western Wall Tunnels

ANDREA M. BERLIN — One Site, Two Peoples: Phoenicians and Jews at Kedesh of the Upper Galilee

YONATAN ADLER — The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal

YUVAL GADOT —New Light on Iron Age and Persian Period Jerusalem

SHIMON GIBSON — Forty Years of Archaeological Work on Mount Zion in Jerusalem

AMIHAI MAZAR — A Philistine Outpost in Northern Tel Aviv: The Story of Tell Qasile

The AIAS Diamond Jubilee Appeal

TAL ILAN and NOAH HACHAM — The Jews of Egypt and Israel: Fresh Insights from Newly Published Papyri

EITAN KLEIN — New Discoveries from the Judaean Desert Caves

ANTHONY SHEPPARD — Fuzzy Frontiers and Funny Faiths

YANA TCHEKHANOVETS — The Holy City? Fourth-Century Jerusalem in Light of the New Archaeological Data

KIMBERLEY CZAJKOWSKI — Re-approaching the Babatha Archive

DAVID JACOBSON — Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods

STEVE MASON — Flavians in Galilee (67 CE): Their Aims and Activities

Recent Advances in DNA Technology and their Contribution to Archaeology in Israel

YOSEF GARFINKEL — The Murder of James Leslie Starkey, Discoverer of Lachish

BEATRICE ST LAURENT — The Transformation of the Temple Mount to Bayt al-Maqdis.

KAREN STERN — Inscription, Touch and Worship in the Synagogue of Dura Europos

CHARLOTTE HEMPEL — Ezra’s Legacy in the Dead Sea Scrolls