Archeology

West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill raises international law concerns, legal adviser warns Knesset

The comments came as lawmakers prepared to advance the legislation on West Bank and Gaza antiquities toward final votes in the committee.

View of the ancient archeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025.
BNEI AKIVA youth movement members dance with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall on Jerusalem Day, on May 20, 1974.

Why does Jerusalem belongs to the Jews? Because history says so - opinion

Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 73.7.52.

Rare Archimedes text resurfaces in a French museum, researchers confirm


With more than 11,000 years of history, Jericho is the oldest inhabited city in the world

Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, led by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s, revealed significant archaeological findings, including the Tower of Jericho.

 Mount of Temptation, Jericho.

Chinese Scientists Discover World's Smallest Dinosaur Eggs, Shedding Light on Theropod Evolution

Researchers identified a new species, Minioolithus ganzhouensis, shedding light on theropod evolution in the Late Cretaceous.

 Pterosaurs Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. Image by Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

National Geographic team finds Andrew Irvine's boot on Mount Everest after 100 years

Discovery may help solve the mystery of whether Irvine and Mallory reached the summit in 1924.

 Mount Everest. Image by Dnor licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Grand Egyptian Museum opens 12 exhibition halls in trial operation

On Wednesday, the museum opened its doors to visitors as part of a trial run, with plans to welcome 4,000 visitors per day, both local and international.

 Grand Egyptian Museum.

DNA analysis links medieval skeleton found in well to events in the Sverris Saga

The saga recounts that during a raid on Sverresborg Castle near Trondheim, attackers threw a dead man into the well to poison the main water source.

 Sverresborg. Image by Cato Edvardsen is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ancient purple fabric found in Vergina tomb may be Alexander the Great's sacred tunic

The findings, published in the Journal of Field Archaeology, have the potential to rewrite history by challenging previous beliefs about the contents of Tomb II.

 "Scene inspired by the Battles of Alexander the Great," attributed to Panayiotis Douxaras (1662-1729).

Discovery reignites search for Noah’s Ark in Turkey’s mountains

The Durupinar formation closely resembles the biblical description of Noah’s Ark: “A length of three hundred cubits, a width of fifty cubits, and a height of thirty cubits.”

 The boat-shaped mound lies just two miles from the Turkey-Iran border

Pass the breadsticks: Ancient humans loved carbs, study finds

Ancient humans' craving for carbohydrates may have deeper roots than previously thought.

Bread

Archaeologists unearth ruins of 4th-century church, oldest in Armenia

The church, an octagonal structure with cross-shaped extensions, is the first building of such form to be unearthed in Armenia.

 Mount Ararat in Armenia. October 6, 2017.

Archaeologists uncover evidence of continuous 6,000-year settlement in England

The oldest finds uncovered in the archeological excavation of a quarry date back to the Neolithic Age.

 Ruins from the villages of Ashopton and Derwent in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. November 6, 2018.