The pictures coming from a friend rsquo s text stream were stunning Photos of a surprise gift for his wife revealed a restored Ford Mustang brilliant dark blue exterior sparkling chrome rims reupholstered black interior and a motor to match the other upgrades There were also ldquo before rdquo pictures of the same vehicle mdash a dull worn unimpressive yellow version While it may be difficult to envision it rsquo s likely that when the vehicle rolled off the assembly line in it was also an eye-catcher But time wear and tear and other factors had made it ripe for [... more]

In archaeologist Gabriel Barkay unearthed two small silver scrolls It took years to delicately unroll the metal scrolls and each was found to contain a Hebrew etching of the blessing from Numbers ndash ldquo The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace rdquo Scholars date the scrolls to the seventh century BC They rsquo re the oldest known bits of Scripture in the world Equally interesting is where they were found Barkay was digging in a cave [... more]

Song of Songs As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks Cleaved by God is the face of His beloved and behind the veil Explore that with us [... more]

Our bus finally arrived at our much-anticipated destination mdash an archaeological dig in Israel where we would actually do some excavation work of our own The site rsquo s director explained that anything we might unearth had been untouched for thousands of years Digging up broken shards of pottery we felt as though we were touching history After an extended time we were led to a workstation where those broken pieces mdash from huge vases shattered long long ago mdash were being put back together nbsp nbsp nbsp The picture was crystal clear Those artisans reconstructing centuries-old broken pottery were [... more]