Research at Rujm el-Hiri, a Bronze Age megalithic monument in the southern Levant, provides a broad insight into two episodes in the prehistory of the Levant--the construction and usage of the Early ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has developed a technique for dating shells from the Ksâr ‘Akil site ...

Silver pieces dating back 3,600 years are the earliest evidence of currency being used in trade in the Levant. Israeli archaeologists announced on Sunday the discovery of the earliest evidence of ...

In a significant archaeological breakthrough, a colossal 3,500-year-old Egyptian military fortress has been unearthed at Tell ...

Researchers stand near the entrance of Ashalim Cave, where they found the lead artifact. (Yahalom-Mack et al.) Researchers stand near the entrance of Ashalim Cave, where they found the lead artifact. ...

Beneath the verdant pools of Gan Ha-Shelosha lies a network of medieval tunnels that once powered the thriving sugar industry ...

A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria. The research team was planning to focus on a much ...

The study indicates that the tunnels likely channeled water to drive horizontal paddle wheels, which powered millstones used ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy. Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—A finger bone unearthed at the Al Wusta site in Saudi Arabia suggests that modern humans migrated out of Africa and into a widespread area as early as 85,000 years ago, according to a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the ...