ISRAEL 365 NEWS
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
March 12, 2025
Archeologists announced that they had discovered evidence of the biblical story of the death of Josiah, the last great king of Judah, at the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II. Historians say the story took place in 609 BCE at Megiddo in Northern Israel, known in Greek as Armageddon.
Prof. Israel Finkelstein of Haifa University – the longtime head of the Megiddo dig – and Dr. Assaf Kleiman of Ben-Gurion University reported their findings in January and February in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament.
Most of the city had been researched in the 1920s, but excavations were carried out in the unexplored northwest corner of the site from 2016 to 2022. According to the report, a newly excavated building in Tel Megiddo held five rooms containing unexpectedly large amounts of low-quality Egyptian and Greek pottery, leading them to conclude that ….