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Pottery residue reveals spice use in prehistoric European cuisine 23 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Garlic mustard used to flavor meats, starches by prehistoric northern European societies Plant residues in cooking pots reveal the use of spices in prehistoric cuisine in northern Europe, according t...
Archaeologists Find Massive Fortifications from the Iron Age 20 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have unearthed the remains of massive ancient fortifications built around an Iron-Age Assyrian harbor in present-day Israel. At the heart of the well-preserved fo...
Handaxe design reveals two distinct Neanderthal cultures 20 Aug 2013 | 03:43 am
A study by a postgraduate researcher at the University of Southampton has found that Neanderthals were more culturally complex than previously acknowledged. Two cultural traditions existed among Neand...
First migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World 16 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Complete article About 15,000 to 18,000 years ago, the first migrant wave spilled from Asia down the Pacific coast and then pushed inland, eventually peopling the land from “the tip of South America ...
Changing climate may have driven collapse of civilizations in Late Bronze Age 16 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
13th c. Eastern Mediterranean cultures suffered wars, famine fuelled by climate change Climate change may have driven the collapse of once-flourishing Eastern Mediterranean civilizations towards the ...
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe 13 Aug 2013 | 12:46 am
Two research teams from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands have jointly reported the discovery of Neandertal bo...
Hospital established and constructed by Hospitallers: the “Order of St. John of the Hospital in Jerusalem” 8 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
Part of an enormous structure dating to the Crusader period (1099–1291 CE), which was a busy hospital, has currently been revealed to the public following excavations and research by the Israel Antiqu...
Oldest European fort in the inland US discovered in Appalachians 24 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
The remains of the earliest European fort in the interior of what is now the United States have been discovered by a team of archaeologists, providing new insight into the start of the U.S. colonial e...
King David’s Palace was Uncovered in the Judean Shephelah 19 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
Two royal public buildings, the likes of which have not previously been found in the Kingdom of Judah of the tenth century BCE, were uncovered this past year by researchers of the Hebrew University an...
Inscription from time of David & Solomon found near Temple Mount in Hebrew University excavation 11 Jul 2013 | 02:11 am
Dated to the 10th century BCE, the inscription is written in the Canaanite language Working near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar has uneart...
