This article presents technical information on major excavations and artifacts relating to biblical archaeology, defined as that archaeology which concerns itself with the biblical world. Over the past thirty years, some archaeologists have led an effort to divorce archaeology in Israel from the biblical texts. Reflecting the change in biblical studies from historical reconstruction to textual criticism, the archaeology has become more sociological and processual and less a search for the realia of biblical life. The approach of the founders of the Biblical archaeology school, William F. Albright and G. Ernest Wright who faithfully accepted the biblical events as history have now been seriously questioned. According to Biblical archaeologist William G. Dever,