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Haaretz
April 17, 2018
Dr. Avi Picard Historian, teaches in the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department, Bar-Ilan University; lives in Yeruham. ... Israel Bartal Historian, emeritus professor in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences andÃâà...
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
January 7, 2018
Ran Barkai, head of the Archaeology Department at Tel Aviv University said: “The extraordinary quantity of flint tools uncovered in the excavation provides significant information about the lifeways of prehistoric humans during the Lower Paleolithic period. It seems that half a million years ago, the conditionsÃâà...
Haaretz
December 3, 2017
A recent new study by Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat of the Hebrew University archaeology department reexamined Josephus' text in comparison with archaeological finds from Temple Mount digs in the 1970s. Focusing on fragments of decoration found from the time, she extrapolates to the construction of theÃâà...
Haaretz
June 15, 2017
The applied mathematics researchers, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shaus and Sober, along with Dr. Anat Mendel-Geberovich of the archaeology department, cannot say which king built the fortress, either. They can postulate that it protected the Judean kingdom's southern border and was manned by up toÃâà...
Breaking Israel News
February 20, 2016
Starkey was murdered by Arab rioters during the Arab Revolt of 1936-1938. The work initiated by Starkey continues today by the archaeology department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Looking at the quiet, peaceful site today, it is sometimes hard to imagine the dramatic events which occurred hereÃâà...
Haaretz
January 15, 2016
“Breakfast! Come to breakfast!,” shouts Prof. Guy Bar-Oz, head of the archaeology department at the University of Haifa, as he strolls among the ruins of the ancient city of Shivta. “Half the time I'm like a shepherd gathering his flock,” he growls good-naturedly, as he continues to collect people from theÃâà...
Haaretz
August 19, 2014
The findings have been published in the magazine PLOS One by researchers from the University of Haifa Archaeology Department and the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, in conjunction with researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the German Archaeological Institute of Berlin.
Haaretz
August 5, 2014
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. (Genesis 4:8). Murder seems so ingrained in man that the Bible begins the story of the first children with it. Given that premeditated killing has been documented inÃâà...
Haaretz
March 30, 2012
He applied to become part of the faculty in the prestigious Hebrew University archaeology department but was not accepted, and eventually found his place at the University of Haifa. In 1995, when the IAA was asked to conduct an excavation of City of David in honor of Jerusalem's 3,000th anniversaryÃâà...
LiveScience.com
December 9, 2010
This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Natalie Munro is a zooarchaeologist, that is, an archaeologist who studies the remains of animals collected by humans in the archaeological record. Her data includes animal skeletal remains (bonesÃâà...
