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August 5, 2021

Archaeologists Find New Evidence of a Biblical Earthquake

It opens new possibilities for dating artifacts in Jerusalem.

In the biblical book of Amos, there are several references to a tremendous earthquake that struck the Land of Israel “in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel”—i.e., in the 8th century BCE. Likewise, the much later book of Zechariah mentions an earthquake that took place “in the days of Uzziah.” Archaeologists have just found new evidence of this event, writes Amanda Borschel-Dan:

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