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Nov 25 Blog

Jews and Arabs Descended from Canaanites

By: Jonathan Laden

After examining the DNA of 93 bodies recovered from archaeological sites around the southern Levant, the land of Canaan in the Bible, researchers have concluded […]

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Sep 22 Blog

Ancient DNA from a Cuneiform Brick

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A group of researchers has successfully extracted DNA from an ancient cuneiform brick for the first time, identifying over thirty species of plants present in […]

Cyprus Trade vessel with war chariot

Dec 13 Blog

Cyprus—Trade Emporium of the Ancient World

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Our modern world is defined by global trade and commerce, but such globalized economies were known in antiquity as well. New finds by the University of […]

Oct 11 Blog

The Brutality of the Crusades

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Textual sources are generally our primary source of information about the life and death of soldiers who fought in the Crusades (11th–13th centuries C.E.). Similarly, […]

Previously Extinct Dates Revived

Aug 30 Blog

Tasting the Past

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Using seeds dating back to the time of the Great Jewish Revolt (66–70 C.E.), researchers from the Arava Institutute for Environmental Studies in Israel planted an experimental date grove at a nearby kibbutz in 2005. The grove began bearing fruit last year, producing a variety of date not tasted for millennia.

Rachel Kalisher at Ashkelon

Jul 31 Blog

Illuminating the Philistines’ Origins

By: Megan Sauter

A new DNA study reveals that the Philistines, the inhabitants of Ashkelon during Iron Age I, had predominantly European ancestry.

Temple Scroll

Jul 8 Blog

Dead Sea Scrolls Genetically Fingerprinted

By: Jonathan Laden

The 25,000 fragments that make up the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by many to be the archaeological discovery of the 20th century. They were […]

Oct 20 Blog

BASONOVA Lecture: DNA Evidence for the Origins of the Philistines

By: Michele Barasso

On Sunday, November 3, 2019 join Professor Daniel Master, Professor of Archaeology at Wheaton College and Director of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, as […]

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