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Archaeologists Find Unexpected Source of Stone for King Herod’s Bathtubs

Mazal Tov! Ultra-rare Sand Cats at Israeli Zoo Have Kittens

Unique Assyrian Relief With Aramaic Text Found Beneath Turkish House

Where Exactly Did John the Baptist Baptize Jesus?

Oysters in Desert Reveal Secrets of Incense Route Trade 2,300 Years Ago

Birds do it, bees do it. Grasp the concept of "nothing,” that is.

The Existential Loneliness of the Chicken

Dagger and arrowheads, Late Bronze Age. The City of Prague Museum

How Were Bronze Age Daggers Used? To Kill Animals. And Maybe Humans What Were Bronze Age Daggers Used For? To Kill Animals, Study Finds. And Maybe Other Humans

Clovis points from the Rummells-Maske site in Iowa.

Was Clovis Culture the First Sign of Humans in the Americas After All?

South American foxes. Did their ancestors cross an ice bridge to the Falkland Islands some 16,000 years ago?

How Did Wolves Get to the Falklands? (P.S. They Weren’t Wolves)

Ceramic sherds excavated from Sankakuyama I, Tanegashima Island.

Among the Earliest in World: Pottery by Hunter-gatherers in Japan

Stonehenge in southern England. What was there 5,000 years ago?

Before Stonehenge: Whispers of Sanctity From 9,000 Years Ago

Dinner is served: Patella lusitanica, Mytilus edulis, Monodonta lineata and Balanus balanoides.

Seafood on Spanish Coast Attests to Climate Cataclysm 8,200 Years Ago

Exquisite, endangered and exposed to diabetes: Northern rock iguanas of Exuma Island

Tourists Feeding Iguanas in Bahamas Are Giving Them Diabetes

An illustration of imperator. No the team did not analyze its coloration.

Pterosaurs Were Strutting Their Stuff in the Early Cretaceous

Herodian stone vessels.

Stone Kitchenware in Jewish Homes: It Began in the Second Temple Stone Dishes in Jewish Homes: A Custom That Began in the Second Temple

Glaciers in Greenland.

Sorry, Vikings: You Didn’t Flee Greenland Because of Little Ice Age

A street cat eating on a path.

Groundbreaking Study Finally Finds How to Control Cats in the City

Closeups of images of Alexander (the two leftmost figures), an Indian priest, and a servant shown on the silver Tibetan bowl

Something's Missing |

Ancient Bowl From Tibet Shows Alexander the Great – the Jewish Version

Vegetation in Pan de Azúcar National Park on the coast of the Atacama Desert.

Prehistoric Mega-quake Identified Off Chilean Coast 3,800 Years Ago

Gondwana 420 million years ago. View centered on the South Pole.

Mystery of Multiple Extinctions in the Jurassic Solved

Excavating the open-air late Neanderthal site, Aranbaltza II.

Neanderthals Went Extinct in Spain and Were Replaced, by Other Neanderthals Neanderthals Went Extinct in Iberia, and Were Replaced – by Other Neanderthals

Mastodons were among the Late Quaternary's victims.

Israeli, Italian Paleontologists Find Link Between Brain Size and Extinction

The reconstructed wine jars from the time of King Zedekiah, which were found to contain traces of vanilla.

Judahite Elite in Jerusalem Drank Wine Flavored With Vanilla Judahite Elite in Jerusalem Drank Wine Flavored With Vanilla 2,600 Years Ago

Neolithic house eroding from dunes at Links of Noltland

How Female Migration Changed the Population of Prehistoric Orkney

Artist's impression of the recumbirostran microsaur Micraroter, a contemporary of Nagini - but it still has fore-limbs while Nagini does not.

When Did Animals First Lose Their Legs? We Finally Have the Answer

The gecko, which approaches worms and beetles leisurely. Its approach to scorpions is something else entirely

WATCH: How Do Geckos Hunt Deadly Scorpions?

Boa constrictor having supper

How a Boa Constrictor Manages to Breathe While Squishing Prey

The folded lead inscription

Early Israelite Curse Inscription Found on Mt. Ebal

Dead Sea.

How Long Have We Known the Dead Sea Is the Lowest Place on Earth?

Methuselah

How King Solomon and the Romans Shaped the Judean Date Palm

An ancient stele known as 'Baal with thunderbolt,' on display at the Louvre Museum.

Monumental Structure Isn’t Phoenician Harbor – It’s a Sacred Pool of Baal Monumental Structure in Sicily Isn’t a Phoenician Harbor – It’s a Huge Sacred Pool of Baal

Model of an ancient Dunkleosteus fish

Earliest Jaws Arose From Gills and Those Fish Could Bite Hard

The nine classes of gold objects analysed. All objects are in the British Museum collection.
From top left to bottom right: lunula; bar torc ; sleeve-fastener ; striated ring ; ring-money ; lock ring ; dress-fastener; penannular bracelet and ribbon torc

Debunked: Bronze Age Britons Did Not Use Gold Pieces as Currency

An artistic reconstruction of Syllipsimopodi in Montana ~330 million year ago, when the area was submerged beneath a tropical bay.

Paleontologists Discover Ancestral Vampire Squid, Name It After Biden Paleontologists Discover Ancestral Vampire Squid, and Name It After Biden

A research vessel setting out to conduct a geophysical survey of the Atlantic Ocean.

Tectonic Events Can Cause Global Chain Reactions, Israeli-Dutch Team Proves

ICYMI

Israeli Police Violence at Al Jazeera Journalist's Funeral Reveals a Deeper Problem

Republicans Slam 'anti-Israel' White House Press Secretary Over AIPAC Boycott Republicans Slam New White House Press Secretary as 'anti-Israel' Over Support for AIPAC Boycott

Generation XXX: Israeli Teens Open Up About Virginity, Sadism and Porn

This Is the Biggest Myth About Israel and the Nakba

How Israel Perceives Putin's Failure in Ukraine War, 70 Days In

Why We Should Stop Pursuing Happiness, and What We Should Do Instead