Neanderthals at two nearby caves, Amud and Kebara (Israel), butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials – while local donkeys were part of the menu – in the Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, in present-day Israel
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
