Ruth Schuster
Haaretz.com
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Archaeologists Discover Unexpected Enterprise in Prehistoric UAE Village
A prehistoric village in the desert of Fujairah, in today’s United Arab Emirates developed a line exporting tools and gewgaws made of seashells, of all things → Read More
A Hiccup in the Annals of Animal Evolution: That Thing Was a Plant
When did animals arise? During the Cambrian Period, over half a billion years ago. Except for the bryozoans, after the earliest one turned out to be algae → Read More
College Students Find Ancient Stone Lioness During Field Trip in Northern Israel
Israel is littered with archaeological finds and antiquities, but finding not one but two lioness statues by accident is quite the achievement → Read More
The Darius Artifact: How Did We Get From Discovery of the Decade to Disgrace?
An inscription mentioning the Persian invader found in the city of Lachish, which had a strong Persian presence, correctly written in the language of the time. What could go wrong? → Read More
Archaeologists Identify the Earliest Horse Riders
The Botai in central Asia may have been first to domesticate the horse, but they weren’t the first to get on its back → Read More
Israel Antiquities Authority: ‘Ancient’ Darius Inscription Deemed Inauthentic in Mix-up
A world expert on Aramaic scripts on a foreign expedition in Tel Lachish had written on the shard of pottery as a demonstration to students illustrating how pottery was inscribed in ancient times → Read More
Inscription Naming Persian King Darius, Father of King Ahasuerus, Discovered in Southern Israel
Which Darius exactly? The pottery fragment found by a chance visitor to Tel Lachish in Israel has all of three words. But they include the name and date → Read More
Scientists Predict 600% Increase in Deadly Heat Waves in Israel by 2100
Extreme weather lasting all summer is projected to drive an 11-fold leap in mortality rates by the end of the century → Read More
Modern Humans With Bows and Arrows Invaded France 54,000 Years Ago
But they didn’t stay long. New finds in southern France indicate protracted struggle: Neanderthals and humans replacing one another, more than once → Read More
Archaeologists Find Homes of Europe’s First Monument Builders, and They’re Fortified
How people lived at the cusp of the Neolithic revolution has been a mystery. Doubled palisade and a ditch around 6,300-year-old settlement in France indicate acute need for defense → Read More
Eyeless Spiders and Other Arachnids New to Science Discovered in Israeli Caves
Closest relatives of the newly discovered great big hairy spiders aren’t the arachnids next door but ones in Cyprus and Turkey, whispering of devastating ancient climate change → Read More
New Testament's Book of Revelation Was Influenced by Curse Tablets, Scholar Deduces
The style of John’s Revelation, the apocalyptic final book of the New Testament, smacks of formally cursing one’s enemies in true Middle Eastern tradition, proposes scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz → Read More
Cave Where Generations Hid for 6,000 Years Found in West Bank
Inside el-Janab Cave near Nablus, archaeologists have found first-ever solid evidence of Muslims fleeing Mongol forces sweeping through the Levant in 1260 → Read More
Israeli Scientists Invent Better Early-warning System for Undersea Quakes
New technology retrofits marine fiber-optic systems: Seafloor quakes can trigger tsunamis and the sooner coastal communities are alerted, the better → Read More
Archaeologists Find Rare Mesopotamian-style Gold Bead in Jerusalem
Discovered in a Late Roman building in the ‘City of David,’ the exquisite bead is one of few gold jewels ever found in the area, archaeologists say → Read More
What Killed the Mummified Swiss Woman? Maybe Something We've Never Seen Before
The 18th-century ancestor of Boris Johnson had the archaeological hallmarks of syphilis, but new analysis finds a microbe new to science in her brain → Read More
The Neanderthals and the Mystery of the Missing Zinc
Analysis of a Neanderthal in Spain supports previous research by Israeli scientists on how they could survive the toxic habit → Read More
Archaeologists Report Collection of Animal Skulls by Neanderthals in Spain
Skulls of horned animals stand out among the bones found in a central Spanish cave. Gothic décor, hunting trophies or a whisper of spirituality in Neanderthals? → Read More
Science Discovers: Your Cats May Not Hate Each Other After All
You may not observe cuddles in your clowder, but now researchers distinguish between playful aggression and actual fighting in the cat → Read More
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Moat Carved Into Jerusalem Bedrock
Mention of Jerusalem’s defensive moat appears in Crusader histories but who built it, and exactly when, remains unclear. Nor does the handprint carved into the rock dispel the mystery → Read More