Take a trip to the ruins of ancient Axum at:
http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/focus/etiopia/ark2.html
To see an ordinary lapwing (unlike Hoopoe who is most extra-ordinary), type "lapwing" into any search engine for pictures such as the one we found at:
http://www.iowight.com/jeffbrett/lapwing.jpg
See a model of the type of ship merchants used in ancient times:
http://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/images/kyrenia_model.jpg
See a model of King Solomon's temple:
http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/faq/templewall.htm
Tour the modern city of Jerusalem:
http://groups.msn.com/Israelplace/tourjerusalem.msnw
or
http://www.md.huji.ac.il/special/vjt/
See Hezekiah's tunnel:
http://www.bibleplaces.com/heztunnel.htm
**This one has excellent links to other sites.
Visit the ruins of ancient Mizpah on a hill now called Tell en-Nasbeh. Scroll down to Slide Show and "Click here" to see a fascinating presentation of photos, drawings and models.
http://bade.psr.edu/bade/project.html
Slides 20 and 26 present models of how the ancient city may have looked.
Slide 22 gives you a map.
Slide 27 gives you a model of the city gate. What really happened here 2,500 years ago?
See pictures of the pool of Gibeon by visiting
http://www.bibleplaces.com/gibeon.htm
and
http://www.ourfatherlutheran.net/biblehomelands/palestine/gibeon.htm
Read all about the shaft (now known as Warrens' Shaft) that leads down into Hezekiah's tunnel:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli205/scarlett_warren/
Be sure to click on the blue highlighted, underlined links which will take you to maps and photos.
Read the Kebra Nagast, the Ethiopian epic that tells the "official" story of how the Ark found its way to Africa:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/kn/
And of course you can read the Bible's account of these events at any of the Bible-online sites:
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.bible.com/
Go to these scriptures: