Mysterious bone circle built 25,000 years ago from the remains of at least 60 mammoths seems to have been too big – and smelly – to be a dwelling, archaeologists posit
After Dead Sea forgeries exposed, how do we know the scrolls in Israel are authentic?
All scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible in Washington turn out to be fakes: Experts explain how we know the massive trove of scrolls held in Jerusalem is genuine
Pending ‘coronavirus apocalypse’ impels man to return ballista stolen from Jerusalem
While cleaning for Passover, the unnamed repentant dusted off the 2,000-year-old weapon he had stolen as a rebellious teenager from the City of David and gave it back to the antiquities authority
Olives first domesticated 7,000 years ago in Israel, study says
Archaeological evidence and fossil pollen from around the Mediterranean show villagers in the hills of the Galilee were the first to cultivate olives
Ancient art found in Basque Country changes understanding of prehistoric society
Very faded but finally noticed, the Basque region cave paintings show that distinct Paleolithic cultures survived cheek by jowl for millennia
Prehistoric southern Africans traded ostrich eggshell beads, study shows
33,000-year-old beads found in highland Lesotho up to 1,000 kilometers away from where ostriches frisked on the savanna
Biggest ivory workshop in ancient world discovered in Pakistan
More than 40 kilograms of ivory fragments unearthed in renewed excavation of the ancient port city of Bhanbhore’s Islamic period – and this was just the industry’s dumping ground
Homo erectus was sexually dimorphic, new evidence shows
Experts explain to Haaretz how mere fragments of two skulls discovered in Ethiopia can be distinguished as male and female, and did it really use both crude and clever tools at the same time?
No, Toba super-volcano didn’t all but wipe out humans 74,000 years ago
Early humans in India clearly survived the super-eruption, and there’s no evidence of large-scale animal extinctions distant from the volcano, let alone of hominins
Earliest complex green algae found – and it’s a billion years old
Discovery of fossil algae in northern China sheds light on origin of the vast family of green plants first arose
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