As reported in Science Daily, the University of Toronto led excavation of Tayinat in Turkey has uncovered a 10th/9th century BCE temple. It evidences cultural and political continuity going from the Late Bronze age to the Iron age, which undercuts the otherwise concensus view that this period was one of cultural collapse and chaos in the eastern Mediterranean region.
Excavation of the Tayinat temple
National Geographic News reports in the article “King Solomon’s Mines Rediscovered?” the results of an excavation in southern Jordan that conclusively date copper mines there to the the Iron Age. This would place them roughly at the same time as the reigns of David and Solomon of Israel.
Science News: Return of the Kings
Science Daily: King Solomon’s Copper Mines?
ANSA reports that an obelisk, looted by Italian troops during World War II, was returned to Aksum amid great celebration. Aksum is the reputed home of the Queen of Sheba, cited in the Hebrew Bible as traveling to Jerusalem to honor the wisdom of Solomon.