While doing an internet search for reports pertaining to Biblical archaeological work, an item appeared that had been picked up by the Turkish internet news site, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on March 23, 2018, from The Christian Post, which it apparently carried on the same date. On its Twitter page, Sat 7 Türk Haber promotes its mission as “News to Christians from Christians.” This article discusses findings in Israel at Bethsaida and ancient Cana of Galilee and in Greece at Corinth.

The article follows [translated from Turkish by Lahbrais O’Coileain (loc):

Archeological Findings: Bible Verification Continues

During 2017, information obtained in digs that are being done in places where events that transpired in the Bible occurred, while repeatedly proving the Bible, has also broadened our historical information.

In the village of Bethsaida, the name of which is also recorded in the New Testament, where Jesus carried out his miracles, Israeli archeologists discovered a rather ornate, small ceramic shard approximately 2300 years old depicting the birth of the Greek goddess Athena.

In 2016, with the Bethsaida Dig, which is in the area of a dig to the north of the Sea of Galilee, ceramic shards were unearthed.

Dr. Rami Arav, project director at the University of Nebraska and professor of Religion and Philosophy, together with the Bethsaida Digs Project Consortium, since 1987 has been excavating with 30 scientists from 18 international foundations both at Bethsaida as well as the site of the city of ancient Geshur. In 1996, a team discovered the Boğa Stele, which stands on an altar at the Geshur entrance. According to Arav, in 2014 they discovered a rare Roman medallion, carrying the words “Judea Capta” in order to commemorate the destruction of the Jewish rebels and the Temple in Jerusalem by Agrippa II in 85 A.D.

Last year, researchers established a connection between stories in the New Testament and countless archaeological finds.

From glass workshops that were found in the vicinity of the small town of ancient Cana where Jesus turned water into wine to the discovery of the Apostle Peter’s bones, archaeological evidence has been discovered connected with a great many things as far as large battles described in the Bible.

Like the analysis of mortar samples of Messiah’s grave, in some situations, new technology has been applied for proof of some of the most important Christian events in history.

In December, Greek and Danish archaeologists who are researching fields of the Lechaion port within the scope of the Lechaion Port Project discovered Roman engineering and remains of old buildings.

The port, found in the Gulf of Corinth, was one of two in the region. The port, because of its much earlier ties with the trade network in the region of Corinth, has caused this field to be unimaginably rich. The Roman Empire, in 146 B.C., conquered Greece while destroying Corinth and Julius Caesar rebuilt the city and its ports in 44 B.C.

According to the New Testament, Jesus’ disciple Paul visited the ancient city during the Roman hegemony.