The 'eternal boys' of Ancient Rome
Published: January 8, 2024 13:10
He, she, or ... ? The gender identity of eunuchs was already debated in Greco-Roman times. Castrati triggered curiosity, hate – and, for some, even arousal
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How did giant prehistoric settlements feed themselves? Not like one might think
Published: January 8, 2024 07:10
Meat-heavy diets are a modern privilege, researchers posit, based on the unexpected find that 6,000 years ago the Cucuteni-Trypillian ate chiefly cereals and legumes - grown in cow manure
Tibetans created a super-yak 2,500 years ago
Published: January 4, 2024 10:06
Wild yaks happily thrive as high as 6,000 meters above sea level, reveling in freezing, low-oxygen, high-solar radiation conditions, a new paper explains. Cows do not. The hybrid yak-cow, though, is hardy and productive – which means both in meat and milk…
Bombing historical sites in Gaza: 'Israel is destroying everything beautiful'
Published: December 26, 2023 13:45
The 13th century Great Omari Mosque, the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the excavation site at the ancient port: Alongside thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands of displaced, dozens of heritage sites in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed by Israeli…
Hominin carpenters, cattle cults and other top world archaeology stories of 2023
Published: December 24, 2023 16:14
The 12,000-year-old duck call and other top archaeology stories in Israel 2023
Published: December 24, 2023 15:22
It was a year of discovery for archaeologists in Israel – from tiny little flutes and a Roman amphitheater for troops to ancient herders at the Dead Sea and a venerated site in the Galilee
The real King David's Jerusalem and other biblical archaeology discoveries in Israel 2023
Published: December 21, 2023 11:12
Who were the Israelites? Archaeologists extract DNA; Canaanites built a huge arch for reasons that escape us; a lost biblical monument in Jerusalem - is it right there in plain sight? and more
Pottery was women's work in biblical Libnah – unless the men had nothing better to do
Published: December 21, 2023 09:09
Analysis of fingerprints on ceramics from Tel Burna, from the Late Bronze Age, finds chiefly those of young women and kids. And, possibly, some disenfranchised men
'We are creating a Yad Vashem 2.0': The race against time to document the horrors of the October 7 massacre
Published: December 18, 2023 12:02
A vast project is underway to scan and document each burned-down room and wrenched-out window frame, every bullet hole and charred chair, every broken doll and abandoned cactus garden. Just as they were left on October 7, the day Hamas attacked Israel's…
'Fake' seal impression of biblical king Jeroboam is authentic, new study says
Published: December 18, 2023 08:16
A nuclear scientist buys a suspect seal impression in the flea market. It's real, study finds: An official's smaller, cruder copy of the roaring lion seal of Jeroboam II, king of ancient Israel
Archaeologists bewildered by monumental moat that split biblical Jerusalem in two
Published: December 12, 2023 15:52
Israeli archaeologists have found a huge ditch carved into the rock that may have split ancient Jerusalem in two 3,000 years ago, with the elites on one side and the rest on the other. Why is another question
What did Crusaders eat in the Holy Land? Archaeologists get hands dirty to find out
Published: December 10, 2023 12:23
New Israeli study sheds light on Crusader consumption, during good times – and during a siege when the Mamluks trapped them in their castle at Apollonia
Archaeologists may have found roof tiles from Antiochus' missing citadel in Jerusalem
Published: December 6, 2023 10:08
Antiochus Epiphanes built a mighty fort in Jerusalem in the second century B.C.E., and may have used 'pagan' tiling technology to annoy the Jews a little more
When Did Jews Start Lighting Candles on Hanukkah?
Published: December 4, 2023 14:20
Modern tradition assumes Hanukkah candles were born with the holiday but Josephus hadn't heard of them: It seems we borrowed them from the pagan Saturnalia
Did Homo naledi really bury its dead? Now there are ways to find out
Published: November 30, 2023 16:02
A new paper argues the case of using geoscientific techniques to diminish uncertainty about archaeological finds – such as whether a small-brained hominin carved its walls and interred its deceased
New studies debunk controversial biblical ‘curse tablet’ from Mt. Ebal
Published: November 30, 2023 15:37
A lead tablet discovered at ‘Joshua’s altar’ in the West Bank was trumpeted as the oldest Hebrew inscription. Skeptics suspect it says nothing and the thing was a fishing weight
Why were there lions in the towns of biblical Israel – as predators, or trophies?
Published: November 29, 2023 12:42
A lion’s toe bone and piece of leopard jaw were found at Tel Burna, identified as the biblical town of Libnah – which is one of many Near Eastern sites featuring big cat remains. Giant-slayer David claimed to have slain a lion, but could he have?
Israeli archaeologists find earliest evidence of war in southern Levant
Published: November 22, 2023 06:55
Industrial production of aerodynamically efficient slingstones almost 8,000 years ago in what is today’s Israel wasn’t done to hunt animals
Prehistoric Australians buried their dingoes with the family in the sky
Published: November 19, 2023 16:25
Indigenous Australians kept dingoes for life, possibly over generations, in contrast to reports of wild puppy raids from the island’s colonial era
How many Israelis died? Archaeologists join efforts to locate human remains
Published: November 16, 2023 17:54
How many murder victims, fallen soldiers, missing people and hostages are there as a result of Hamas' attack? A team of archaeologists came to Kibbutz Nir Oz near the Gaza border to assist in the efforts in the burned houses
Lost biblical monument in Jerusalem is in plain sight, new theory claims
Published: November 16, 2023 10:56
Study suggests the monumental fortifications surrounding Jerusalem’s Gihon Spring may be the enigmatic ‘Millo’ that the Bible claims Solomon built
David and Solomon’s biblical kingdom may have existed after all, new study suggests
Published: November 15, 2023 19:03
Monumental structures at Gezer have been redated to the early 10th century B.C.E., which means maybe Solomon built them after all, biblical archaeologists say. But colleagues remain skeptical
Shoes could have emerged as much as 150,000 years ago, study suggests
Published: November 14, 2023 11:39
Footprints without toe-marks on rocky South African beaches from the Middle Stone Age could indicate that somebody was wearing shoes
Archaeologists may have found traditional home of Jesus' apostles by the Sea of Galilee
Published: November 8, 2023 13:09
Below an early church in the village they think was Bethsaida, archaeologists uncovered a ‘sacred wall’ – that couldn’t have been from Peter the Apostle’s house. However, the one next to it could have been
Archaeologists discover earliest use of vegan dye in Israeli cave
Published: November 1, 2023 10:08
At Kebara 15,000 years ago, plant-based pigment was used to dye beads and, possibly, wow the other Natufians, archaeologists suggest
Israeli archaeologists help identify human remains in Gaza border communities
Published: October 30, 2023 14:38
Archaeologists are employing their skills to detect human remains in burned houses and fire-gutted cars in communities bordering Gaza, three weeks after Hamas' deadly assault on southern Israel
Spy satellites over Syria reveal hundreds of ancient Roman forts
Published: October 26, 2023 03:08
A Jesuit archaeologist flew over the Near East in the 1920s looking for Roman forts – and found them. Newly declassified images from the Cold War show hundreds more, and also show that Father Poidebard had his interpretations all wrong
Neanderthals in Europe started the fire, researchers deduce
Published: October 22, 2023 18:54
We know hominins have been using fire for hundreds of thousands of years, maybe over a million, but could they light it? Neanderthals could
Early farmers spreading out of Anatolia explain mystery of Neanderthal DNA in east Asians
Published: October 19, 2023 07:47
Neanderthals didn’t reach eastern Asia, so why do western Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than eastern Asians?
New discovery changes story of King Hazael’s attack on biblical Gath
Published: October 18, 2023 17:35
The Philistines of Gath were thought to be outliers in the Levant in building with Mesopotamia-style fired bricks. But what baked the bricks at Tell es-Safi wasn’t a kiln
Archaeological, biblical institutions condemn Hamas massacre
Published: October 17, 2023 13:15
Following a week of complaints by Israeli archaeologists over their silence, the American Society for Overseas Research on Monday condemned Hamas’ ‘vicious massacre’ of Israeli civilians, while the Society of Biblical Literature cited concern over rising…
Study reveals the scope of prehistoric violence in the Middle East
Published: October 13, 2023 06:16
Analysis of 3,500 skeletons from 14,000 to 2,400 years ago detects nuances in the history of violence. Sometimes it can be contained
In first, archaeologists extract DNA of ancient Israelites
Published: October 9, 2023 09:15
A rare First Temple-period family burial opens the door to genetic studies on the true origin of the ancient Israelites - and their links to modern Jewish populations
The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible arrives in Israel
Published: October 5, 2023 16:06
The Codex Sassoon was bought at auction in New York for $38 million in May and donated to the museum. The price makes the Bible weighing 12 kilograms the most expensive Jewish manuscript in history and contains handwritten signs indicating how it is to be…
The hominin and the hyena: Were they at war, and how did it shape our evolution?
Published: September 28, 2023 15:00
How exactly did hominins spread in southern Europe 1.4 million years ago, and were saber-toothed cats and hyenas involved? And do hyenas have any role to play in the emergence of language?
Earliest baskets in Europe, from almost 10,000 years ago, found in Spanish cave
Published: September 27, 2023 18:00
Elaborate baskets made of tough local grass were used by hunter-gatherers to bury their dead at Cueva de los Murciélagos, while early farmers also turned their hand to sandals
Israeli archaeologists may have found first-ever grave of hetaira from time of Alexander the Great
Published: September 27, 2023 10:37
Buried 2,300 years ago on the road to Jerusalem, with grave goods consisting of nails and a mirror from the time of Alexander of Macedonia, archaeologists surmise this woman was a Greek courtesan
Archaeologists unearth rare lead sarcophogi in Gaza's largest Roman-era cemetery
Published: September 25, 2023 20:03
What was once an inconspicuous construction lot – surrounded by a grove of nondescript apartment buildings – has become a gold mine for archaeologists in the Gaza Strip