No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered.

While fully employed at the IAA, he earned a master’s degree at Bar-Ilan University and is now a doctoral candidate at ...

A look at the items discovered during archaeological digs.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Researchers Discover Red Cloth Dyed With Insects From a Cave, Shed Light on Advanced Intellect of Ancient Civilization Archaeologists excavated two wool textile shards from the Cave of Skulls in the ...

A recent archaeological discovery has revealed that an ancient pre-Columbian society in the Amazon region successfully ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

He was a warrior so large that his name is now a byword for immense size. But just how big was Goliath the biblical giant in ...