12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A new method using ArchCUT3-D software for rock engraving analysis: computational answers to riddles on stone
Fungi and lichens pose deadly threat to 5,000-year-old rock art in the Negev desert; those famous petroglyphs are at risk of destruction
400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer, following the disappearance of elephants
Scientists show how the ancient village of Habonim North adapted to drought, rising seas: underwater excavation reveals human resilience through Neolithic-period climate change
Hazor, one of the largest “megacities” of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean was abandoned: its resettlement occured in the Iron Age
The reason for the proximity between Paleolithic extensive stone quarries and water sources: Elephant hunting by early humans
Plant seed and fruit analysis from Tell es-Safi/Gath, the biblical home of Goliath, sheds unprecedented light on Philistine ritual practices
Measuring the magnetic field recorded in burnt bricks corroborates the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by King Hazael of Aram-Damascus, as recorded by the Book of Kings 2
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
