Ancient DNA sheds light on the origins of the Biblical Philistines
Ancient genomes suggest that the Philistines descended from people who migrated across the Mediterranean and reached the shores of the southern Levant at the beginning of the Iron Age.
Newly-discovered 1,600-year-old mosaic sheds light on ancient Judaism
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, together with a team of researchers and students find the first ancient Jewish depiction of the Elim episode from the biblical book of Exodus.
Neanderthals made repeated use of the ancient settlement of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel
This site provides a rare opportunity to study long-term use of an open air settlement.
Retracing ancient routes to Australia
Modelling reveals First Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologies.
9,000 years ago, a community with modern urban problems
Çatalhöyük had overcrowding, violence, environmental troubles.
The origins of cannabis smoking: marijuana use in the first millennium BC
A chemical residue study of incense burners from ancient burials at high elevations in western China has revealed psychoactive cannabinoids; this provides some of the earliest evidence for the...
The Neolithic precedents of gender inequality
Researchers from the University of Seville have published an ambitious study of gender inequality in prehistoric Iberia.
