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WABE 90.1 FM
January 27, 2018
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the oldest fossil of a modern human outside Africa. The fossil suggests that humans first migrated out of the continent much earlier than previously believed. The scientists were digging in a cave called Misliya, on the slopes of Mount Carmel on the northern coast ofÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 27, 2018
A team of Israeli scientists and archaeologists has embarked on a massive four-year project to accurately radiocarbon-date the complex layers of ancient .... a leading archaeologist at Tel Aviv University who is not part of the project but has pioneered the use of radiocarbon dating in other sites in Israel.
Haaretz
January 26, 2018
“It's really something different,” says archaeologist Prof. Mina Evron from Israel's University of Haifa, which conducted the dig jointly with Tel Aviv University. Evron says the upper left jawbone, complete with eight well-preserved teeth, was first discovered in 2002 in Misliya Cave – one of several prehistoricÃÂ ...
KIRO Seattle
January 7, 2018
JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists unveiled a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression they believe belonged to a biblical governor of Jerusalem, Reuters ... of the city,” was likely attached to a shipment or sent as a souvenir on behalf of the governor, according to officials of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Haaretz
January 7, 2018
Archaeologists excavating an ancient river bed in Israel have uncovered a vast prehistoric site where, half a million years ago, early humans created a hoard ... archeologists first stumbled upon the site last year while surveying an area slated a new neighborhood in the nearby Arab-Israeli town of Jaljulia.
Liberty News
January 5, 2018
6 on its list of Top 10 Discoveries of 2017 for Biblical Archaeology. Early last year, Price and the team helped to uncover evidence in a cave in Qumran, Israel, that proved the Dead Sea Scrolls were once stored there. While no physical scrolls were found, the team uncovered fragments of storage jars, scrollÃÂ ...
Beliefnet
January 3, 2018
Archaeologists were able to date it to the period of the first Jewish temple because it was uncovered in soil from the first temple period. According to lead site excavator Dr. Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, the seal “supports the Biblical rendering of the existence of a governor of the city in Jerusalem 2,700 years ago. This is the firstÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
December 28, 2017
Ten years of archaeology at Tel Gezer wrapped up in 2017. Archaeologists Steven Ortiz of Southwestern Baptist Seminary and Sam Wolff of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported a clear sequence of occupations and destructions dating from the time of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah (13th centuryÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
December 27, 2017
Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists digging at the site of Beth Shemesh have discovered the spectacular remains of a 1,500-year-old monastery and church decorated with mosaic floors and imported ... An archaeology student uncovering the mosaic floor of a church at Beth Shemesh, Israel.
Archaeology
December 26, 2017
MEGIDDO, ISRAEL—Further evidence of a major 2nd to 3rd century Roman military encampment has been uncovered at the site of Legio, near Tel Megiddo in northern Israel, according to a report from Haaretz. The camp was the base of the Sixth Legion, which helped secure Rome's hold over the areaÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
The two are now working to decipher the last Dead Sea Scroll. “Tens of thousands of fragments belonging to over 900 scrolls were found in the caves at Qumran,” Dr. Ratzon told Haaretz. “This is the most important archaeological find ever made in Israel. This is literature from the Second Temple period,ÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
Archaeologists have claimed to decode one of the last few remaining obscure parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Sixty tiny fragments of the ancient text were pieced together over the course of a year and are believed to identify the name of a festival marking the changes between seasons. It also revealed aÃÂ ...
The Christian Times
December 31, 1999
(Wikimedia Commons/Yourway-to-israel)The Western wall and Dome of the Rock in the old city of Jerusalem. Israeli archaeologists have unveiled an extremely rare seal impression that is said to belong to the biblical Governor of Jerusalem during the First Temple era. The 2,700-year-old seal, which wasÃÂ ...
AOL
December 31, 1999
The artifact, inscribed in an ancient Hebrew script as "belonging to the governor of the city," was likely attached to a shipment or sent as a souvenir on behalf of the governor, the most prominent local position held in Jerusalem at the time, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. The impression, the size of aÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 30, 2017
Archaeologists tracing the origins of the Ark of the Covenant, a lost biblical chest that is said to contain ancient relics, believe it may have alsoÃÂ ...
Ancient Origins
August 23, 2017
Excavators from Israel have announced the discovery of three ... Israeli and international archaeologists have been trying for many years toÃÂ ...
Archaeology
August 22, 2017
TEL BURNA, ISRAEL—Haaretz reports that archaeologists digging at the ancient Canaanite city of Libnah have unearthed artifacts that theyÃÂ ...
Haaretz
August 22, 2017
Previously the archaeologists had been uncertain as to whether they had found a cultic site featuring ritual feasting, or simply a house sportingÃÂ ...
Nature.com
August 11, 2017
They point to the example of a newly established centre in Israel that will ... and aims to return remains to archaeology collections within a year.
National Geographic
August 7, 2017
Archaeologists say they have discovered a Roman-era (first- to ... Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology told the Israeli newpaper Haaretz.
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Ahmed Rjoob, director-general of the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, told Al Jazeera that Israel's theft of Palestine's culturalÃÂ ...
Honest Reporting Canada
March 22, 2017
Grad students plunge into Israeli culture and public policy: The School of Public Policy and Haskayne Business School students embark on educational journey in Multi-Faces of Israel course. In February, 13 graduate students from the university's School ...
ABC News
March 22, 2017
The Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday it was excavating 250,000-year-old flint tools when the archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of liquor bottles near a building where British soldiers were garrisoned in 1917.
Science World Report
March 20, 2017
Archaeologists found an ancient burial box that is inscribed with the name of Jesus or "Yeshua" in Hebrew and some relics believed to exist in the time of Jesus.
Hutchinson News
March 17, 2017
Vicky and I enjoyed a few days in Israel away from the political noise that is a constant drumbeat here in the U.S. I even missed a column deadline for the first time in nearly 10 years.
Israel Today
March 15, 2017
After ISIS was recently pushed out of Mosul, archeologists had a chance to examine the wreckage, and made a stunning discovery.
New Historian
March 14, 2017
As part of the research conducted by archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Hai College, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the stone panel with the engravings was scanned in situ by the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory of HebrewÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
March 13, 2017
"We believe that the Freedom Hosting II takedown not only removed many thousands of active sites but also may have affected other hosting providers who were hosting some infrastructure on top of Freedom Hosting II.
TheTower.org
February 23, 2017
Archaeologists have discovered and restored a stone column with Hebrew inscriptions from an 1,800-year-old synagogue in the town of Peki'in in the western Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week. The column was foundÃÂ ...
Raw Story
February 21, 2017
A pendant recently uncovered by archeologists working at the Nazi death camp Sobibor is last known trace of Karoline, shedding light on her tragic fate and a possible link to diarist Anne Frank.
New Historian
February 20, 2017
Archeologists with the University of Haifa, working at Beit She'arim, which means House of Gates in Hebrew, recently unearthed a huge gateway during excavations at the site.
gulfnews.com
February 19, 2017
Israeli archeologists never gave an official reason as to why they were excavating the area, which angered Palestinians, especially since the archeologists said they knew that the palaces were not built on top of any specific ancient Jewish holy site.
MobiPicker
February 18, 2017
... the Earth's magnetic field fluctuations, a new study suggests. The study was conducted in Israel, measuring the position of the microscopic magnetic minerals found in the clay, influenced by the Earth's magnetic field.
Aiken Standard
February 18, 2017
The Trenton Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, organized on Oct. 19, 1911, will meet Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Daily Signal
February 17, 2017
Dear Daily Signal: As secretary of state, John Kerry continued to favor the Islamist attitude toward the existence of Israel ("Kerry Takes Parting Shot at Israel in Middle East Speech"). He kowtowed to the machinations of the America-hating, Marxist ...
The Boston Globe
February 16, 2017
David Friedman, the Orthodox Jewish bankruptcy lawyer (he helped Trump with several of his casino bankruptcies) nominated as ambassador to Israel, will get some tough questions during his confirmation hearing today. He opposes much of the decades-old ...
Wheaton Record
February 16, 2017
... the scrolls themselves were gone, the finding holds significance as another piece in the yet-unfinished puzzle of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the exploration of the Qumran caves in the Judean desert, located just east of Jerusalem in the Israeli ...
WUWM
February 16, 2017
The Israeli military has an archaeology unit that is responsible for excavations in most of the West Bank, land captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by Palestinians for an independent state. .... The military archeologists see their job as a race to ...
The Boston Globe
February 15, 2017
In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archeologist Howard Carter. In 1937, Du Pont research chemist Dr. Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon, described as ''linear ...
Aiken Standard
February 15, 2017
In addition, the Pre-Jam Party, sponsored by Israel: Land of Creation, will feature OBB, Sarah Reeves and Steven Malcolm. The tour will also be highlighted by a special ..... The Trenton Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution ...
The Missouri Injury Blog (blog)
February 15, 2017
"They are really foundation stones to modern Western thought in the Judeo-Christian world in the same way that the 'Mona Lisa' was to development of art," James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum told LiveScience. "If you think of certain phrases ...
Tech Times
February 15, 2017
Indeed, these 3,000-year-old ancient jars provide some clues into the strength of Earth's magnetic field, a new study in Israel revealed. It's as if the jars themselves hold records of the waning ... that the planet might lose its magnetic field ...
The New Yorker
February 13, 2017
On Monday, in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Israeli and American archeologists and geophysicists reports the most detailed reconstruction yet of the magnetic field in pre-instrumental times, using a set ...
iTech Post
February 12, 2017
The show, which includes a parchment scroll of one of the best-preserved manuscripts of the Ten Commandments, features hundreds of artifacts originating from archaeological explorations by the Israel Antiquities Authority and a three-ton stone from the ...
HeritageDaily
February 12, 2017
"Historically, archeologists haven't really looked at these objects - if they see them at a site, they usually go 'Oh, there's an ordinary pebble,' and then discard it with the rest of the sediment," he said.
The Monitor Daily
February 12, 2017
Israel Hasson also released a declaration. He is the Israel Antiquity Authority. "The important discovery of another scroll cave attests to the fact that a lot of work remains to be done in the Judean Dessert, and finds of huge importance are still ...
HeritageDaily
February 9, 2017
"Historically, archeologists haven't really looked at these objects - if they see them at a site, they usually go 'Oh, there's an ordinary pebble,' and then discard it with the rest of the sediment," he said.
Lankaweb
February 9, 2017
According to historians, Saul the King of Israel (11th century BC) had abnormal behaviour with inclination towards violence.
Toronto Star
February 9, 2017
A replica of a segment from the 2000-year-old manuscript of the Ten Commandments is shown in Jerusalem in 2012, as part of the Israel Museum's collection of the Dead Sea scrolls. Israeli archeologists have now discovered another cave on the shore of ...
JP Updates
February 5, 2017
Archaeologists believe that King Solomon's mines were located here, in Israel's Timna Valley [Daviddje] A team of archeologists have identified an excavated site in Israel's Timna Valley as the location of King Solomon's Mines, according to a new paperÃÂ ...
