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April 2, 2025
New Evidence of the Original Armageddon
Egyptian and Greek pottery could be remnants of a biblical battle.
Near the end of the 7th century BCE, the Middle East was in the midst of a power struggle between Egypt and Assyria on the one hand, and the ascendant Babylonian empire on the other. The Hebrew Bible describes how King Josiah of Judea backed the wrong horse, at least in the short term, and refused to let Egyptian forces pass through his territory. He was slain in battle with Egypt at Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley—which later appears in the New Testament as Mount Megiddo, or Armageddon. Until now, the story was only known from the Bible, but an ongoing excavation, under the supervision of Israel Finkelstein and Assaf Kleiman, may have found some archaeological evidence. Rossella Tercatin writes:
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New Evidence of the Original Armageddon
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