On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new exhibit at the Wiener Library: the appalling children’s board game “Jews out!” from Nazi Germany
‘Impossible Object’: an artwork that can exist only in outer space was activated on the International Space Station
International team of leading Israeli universities finds oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food at Gesher Benot Ya’aqob
Geomagnetic fields recorded in archaeological sites are helping to verify the Biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
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
Olive Trees Were First Domesticated 7,000 Years Ago. Earliest evidence for cultivation of a fruit tree, according to researchers
A new study, publisheed in PaleoAnthropology, shows that Amud 9 was a Neandertal woman weighing 60 kg who lived in the Late Pleistocene
A new Tel Aviv University study finds that prehistoric humans “recycled” discarded or broken flint tools 400,000 years ago to create small, sharp utensils with specific functions
What kind of beer did the Pharaohs drink? The pottery used to produce beer in antiquity served as the basis for this new research
A new study suggests that the genetic profiles of woolly mammoths and Neanderthals shared molecular characteristics of adaptation to cold environments
