Edward Robinson (scholar)
Edward Robinson was an American biblical scholar known for his magnum opus, Biblical Researches in Palestine, the first major work in Biblical Geography and Biblical Archaeology, which earned him the epithets "Father of Biblical Geography" and "Founder of Modern Palestinology."
Edward Robinson (scholar)
Robinson's arch, on the south-western flank of the Temple Mount, once supported a staircase which led to the temple.
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.