Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites from the Ancient Near East and especially the Holy Land, from biblical times.
The Levant and Canaan
The caves at Qumran, where one of biblical archaeology’s most important findings of all time was found, in the valley of the Dead Sea.
Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant. It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology. Besides its importance to the discipline of Biblical archaeology, the Levant is highly important when forming an understanding of the history of the earliest peoples of the Stone Age.
Dwelling foundations unearthed at Tell es-Sultan in Jericho
Excavated ruins at Ras Shamra in Syria
The excavation site at Ebla in Syria
An Umayyad mosaic from Hisham's Palace at Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho