Actually, this is not new. It was discovered 20 years ago or more and it took archeologists 10 years to confirm that it does belongs to James. It has been in the news for decades at this point.
There is an incredible amount of stuff unearthed that confirms the Bible. They found the pool of Bethsaida and the Stables of Solomon. There are a number of items found in Rome that refer to the contemporary Christ.
The list is endless, but archeologists say only 1% has been unearthed. There are tells everywhere that have not yet been excavated.
Bethsaida, on Galillee, was the hometown of Peter, Andrew, Philip.
Recent archaeological finds are worth catching up on.
https://www.museumofthebible.org/events/byzantine-bethsaida-and-the-house-of-st-peter
Byzantine Bethsaida and the House of St. Peter
In this presentation, Professor R. Steven Notley of Alliance University (formerly Nyack College) and Dr. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee will explore the historical and religious implications of the fifth- to eighth-century basilica excavated at Khirbet el-Araj (Bethsaida) from 2019 to 2022. In the absence of an alternative church, since 1921 both scholarly and popular writings have redirected the Byzantine testimony for a basilica built over the house of Peter to the “Octagon” (as its excavator, Gaudenzio Orfali, called it) in Capernaum. Yet, this modern innovation stands in the face of centuries of Christian tradition that consistently identified Peter’s home in Bethsaida, not in Capernaum.
For six seasons, the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology and Alliance University have excavated the archaeological site of el-Araj (Bet HaBek) on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Beneath the former nineteenth-century house of Abdul Rahman Pasha Bek, three distinct layers have been identified in Area A. In the upper layer, which dates to the Crusader and Mamluk period, a sugar manufacturing structure was discovered. Below it is a monastery dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic period, the fifth to the eighth century. It was constructed around a large basilica paved with mosaic floors. The basilica, or church, was described by the Bavarian bishop Willibald from his visit in 724, where he reports that it was built over the house of the apostles Peter and Andrew.
During the 2022 season, we were fortunate to find a complete Greek inscription that mentions, “the chief and commander of the heavenly apostles,” a clear reference to St. Peter. The inscription confirmed this is the church visited by Willibald! About two meters below the floors of the monastery, we uncovered a layer dated to the Roman period. Pottery and coins date from first to the third century. This is clear proof that the site, which was already suggested by scholars years ago, is indeed a good candidate for New Testament Bethsaida.
In addition, excavations in the surrounding Areas B, C, and D have found houses and rooms dated only to the Roman period, with coins from first to third century and pottery from first century BC. Limestone vessels, typical of Jewish populations, were found in the lower layer of these outlying squares. There are even coins minted by Herod Phillip, who is credited with transforming the village of Bethsaida into the city of Julias. There remains little doubt that the site of el-Araj was inhabited from the first century BC onward and probably began as a Jewish village. The existence of a public, well-decorated bathhouse in the Roman period shows signs of urbanization in what had previously been a rural site.
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