An AI program trained to study the handwriting styles of centuries-old manuscripts from the Middle East suggests a different age of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago
Diversity Statistics of Onomastic Data Reveal Social Patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age; a new study published in PNAS
Neolithic agricultural Revolution in southern Levant linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, according to a new study in the Journal of Soils and Sediments
Tel Shiqmona, an Iron Age purple dye “factory” in Israel was in operation for almost 500 years, using mollusks in large-scale specialized manufacturing process; a study published in PLoS ONE
First burials: Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interactions in the Mid-Middle Palaeolithic Levant discovered at Tinshemet Cave
P.Cotton is a Greek papyrus detailing a gripping case involving forgery, tax evasion, and the fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves in the Roman provinces of Iudaea and Arabia
New insights from a late Roman inscription, a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah
The ancient copper industry in King Solomon’s mines, located in the Timna Valley, did not pollute the environment
Earliest deep-cave ritual compound in Southwest Asia discovered: evidence for a ritual gathering at the Manot Cave, in Galilee, 35,000 years ago