Ariel David
Haaretz.com
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How to Make a Mummy: Archaeologists Reveal Ancient Recipe for Embalming in Egypt
Analysis of 2,600-year-old ceramics from embalming workshop at Saqqara, Egypt shows mummification process included products sourced from as far as Southeast Asia → Read More
Armageddon Time: How Discoveries at Megiddo Retell the Story of Ancient Israel
For the first time, archaeologists have dated a complete sequence from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age. What they found at Megiddo changes the story of the ancient Levant → Read More
Researchers Reveal Why Ancient Roman Monuments Still Stand After Millennia
What did the Romans ever do for us? They created a concrete that self-repairs, which today could reduce the massive emissions caused by modern cement production, study finds → Read More
Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds
The Aegean Islands have been isolated for over 450,000 years, yet evidence of activity, possibly by multiple species of early humans, is all over the place → Read More
DNA of Medieval Skeletons in Germany Sheds Light on Origins of Ashkenazi Jews
Rare opportunity to analyze genomes of 14th century Jews shows there were once two distinct populations of Ashkenazis. Also: the ‘Ashkenazi population bottleneck’ wasn’t an episode, it lasted for 500 years → Read More
Researchers Crack Secret of 1,400-year-old Inscription From Catacomb in Israel
Exaltation my mouth? Graffito from Beit She’arim cemetery confounded scholars for decades – until they figured out it was written in Aramaic using a Persian alphabet. But its true meaning remains inscrutable → Read More
When Did Judaism Emerge? Far Later Than Assumed, New Theory Suggests
Vast review finds no evidence that the Torah laws were commonly observed before the second century B.C.E., says Prof. Yonatan Adler. Not all agree → Read More
Earliest Evidence of Cooking Found in 780,000-year-old Barbecued Fish
Hominins living at Gesher Benot Ya’akov controlled fire and cooked tasty fish, suggesting a key step in our evolution happened much earlier than previously thought → Read More
Archaeologists Reconstruct Biblical Conflicts Using Earth’s Magnetic Field
Israel is full of ancient ruins, but who destroyed what and when? Earth’s magnetic field is helping researchers identify remains of wars described in the Bible → Read More
From Fox News to Ted Cruz, Conservatives Rush to Whitewash Italy’s New Far-right Rulers
Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy are not true blue fascists, but when the Western right labels them 'moderate conservatives,' or even 'centrists,' it's part of a broader, cynical ploy to normalize ultranationalist extremism → Read More
Italy’s Economic and Political Malaise Has Pushed the Country Into Far-right Hands
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of a party with neo-fascist roots, has successfully captured Italy’s protest vote and is now set to become the country’s first female prime minister → Read More
Italy’s Economic and Political Malaise Has Pushed the Country Into Far-right Hands
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of a party with neo-fascist roots, has successfully captured Italy’s protest vote and is now set to become the country’s first female prime minister → Read More
Bong Age? Israeli Archaeologists Find Opium in Bronze Age Ceramics
Residue analysis of 3,300-year-old vessels from Canaanite tombs at Tel Yehud sheds light on ancient drug trade between Cyprus and the Levant → Read More
Archaeologists Discover Why Ancient Roman Dice Were So Dodgy
Long thought to be a sign of underhandedness, lopsided Roman dice had nothing to do with cheating and everything to do with how the Romans viewed the world and fate, experts say → Read More
Megadrought contributed to fall of Jewish kingdom in Arabia, rise of Islam, study suggests
Around 1,500 years ago, southern Arabia was hit by a multi-decade megadrought, a new study of ancient climate data has found. This likely contributed to the downfall of a once powerful Jewish kingdom that ruled over large swaths of what is today Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The demise of the ancient kingdom of Himyar in the sixth century and the ensuing power vacuum in Arabia may have then… → Read More
Grisly discovery exposes the plight of Jewish slaves in Renaissance Europe
In 1610, a doctor and founding father of the Italian city of Livorno organized the mass rape of enslaved Jewish women from Morocco in a plot to extort money from local Jews → Read More
Study reveals origin of the mysterious Avars, who crushed the Roman Empire
The nomadic Avars appeared suddenly in Eastern Europe 1,500 years ago, crushed the remains of the Roman Empire under their boots and ruled for two centuries. Who were they? → Read More
Shipwreck off Israeli coast changes what we know about the early Islamic period
Goods from all over, including Turkish nuts in Egyptian jars, found in ship that sank off Ma’agan Michael in northern Israel 1,400 years ago belie ‘dark Age’ after the Muslim conquest of the Levant → Read More
Ancient Roman ‘feng shui’ revealed in Pompeii
Archaeologists recreate stately home in Pompeii destroyed by Vesuvius and see, using virtual reality, how its owner used art, lighting and architecture to impress visitors and enhance his prestige → Read More
Modern humans made failed attempt to colonize Europe 54,000 years ago
Homo sapiens remains found ‘sandwiched’ between layers of Neanderthal habitation in Rhone Valley cave push back the clock on earliest known arrival of modern humans in Europe by 10,000 years → Read More