Strata: In History

March 1975. The first issue of Biblical Archaeology Review was published. Three shapes are depicted on the magazine’s original cover. While the bottom two stone slabs are immediately recognizable as the famous Ten Commandments, the top slab engraved with the magazine’s title is perhaps not as familiar. It represents the Siloam Inscription, the important inscription discovered in Jerusalem near the Siloam Pool that describes how two teams digging the Siloam Tunnel—also known as Hezekiah’s Tunnel—began on opposite ends and met in the middle “pick against pick.”