Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
Plant seed and fruit analysis from Tell es-Safi/Gath, the biblical home of Goliath, sheds unprecedented light on Philistine ritual practices
Genomics and archaeology rewrite the Neolithic Revolution in the Maghreb, according to a new study published in Nature
The first prehistoric wind instruments (known as flutes) in the Levant have been found at the site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel
Early European farmers borrowed genes from hunter-gatherers to survive disease, according to a new study in Current Biology
A new study has revealed the earliest known evidence of the use of the hallucinogenic drug opium, and psychoactive drugs in general, in the world
The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
Archaeologists unearth huge Phoenician defensive moat Wide and intact, it helped fortify the defensive nature of the area, noticeably increasing its ability to…
A cremation pyre pit in Beisamoun, Israel, represents the oldest proof of direct cremation in the Middle East; dates as far back as 7,000 B.C.
A new study reveals the features of the population that was buried in the necropolis of Tell es-Sin in Syria, a Byzantine archaeological site