March
21
/ 2025
New archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Megiddo in northern Israel — the location of the final Battle of Armageddon in the Book of Revelation — supports the biblical story of an Israelite king and Egyptian pharaoh clashing there more than 2,600 years ago, researchers report. According to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, which feature somewhat variant collections of ancient Hebrew writings, the Kingdom of Judah's King Josiah went face-to-face with the forces of Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II at Megiddo in 609 BC, in what the Bible’s Book of Chronicles depicted as an epic confrontation that foreshadowed the final conflict between God and Satan. Now, an analysis of ancient pottery fragments excavated at Megiddo shows that
