archaeology
17/08/2023 - 17:50
The tour guide’s ancestors had come to Rome following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. The family’s survival was threatened... →
08/07/2023 - 13:56
A full wall-length animation by Ada Rimon and Ofeq Shemer at the entrance launches the exhibit and takes visitors back in time to the... →
12/01/2023 - 17:20
Meat, fire and beer: origins of modern food staples
For decades, one of the hallmarks of human evolution has been the presumed shift... →
04/12/2022 - 15:25
About half of Jews today are identified as Ashkenazi, meaning they originated from Jews who lived in Central or Eastern Europe. The term... →
04/11/2021 - 17:47
The team excavated them from the buried rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, where German occupiers sealed hundreds of thousands of Poland's Jews... →
26/10/2021 - 12:21
The “Sanhedrin Trail” features over 150 objects from the late Second Temple period and the following centuries, some of them on... →
20/07/2021 - 13:03
Here, archaeologists might refer to ‘diffusion’ among the groups, a vague 19th-century term suggesting that the movement of cultural... →
28/06/2021 - 13:06
Francesco d’Errico, an archaeologist at the University of Bordeaux, France, has an idea about the marks. He has examined many ancient... →
17/02/2021 - 15:36
Exactly what the circle meant to them remains a mystery. But new research reveals that several centuries later, their descendants took down... →
13/06/2020 - 12:41
Some scholars argued that changing the society’s name would be a step against racism and sexism, specifically in how academics research and... →
05/06/2020 - 16:30
For decades, scholars have been debating the origin of the extraordinary collection of hundreds of manuscripts collated in the heart of the... →
23/02/2020 - 13:36
The team was led by Prof. Yosef Garfinkel from the university’s Institute of Archaeology and Prof. Michael Hasel from Southern Adventist... →