May 6 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
For much of the first millennium BCE, the Carthaginian merchant empire dominated large swaths of the Mediterranean. But who were the Carthaginians? Carthage, located near […]
Jan 15 Blog
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 […]
Nov 3 Blog
Editor’s Note: The following article contains photos of human remains. Before the construction of a new university library in Osijek, Croatia, excavations revealed a startlingly […]
Sep 22 Blog
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 […]
Dec 13 Blog
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
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, […]
Aug 30 Blog
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.
Jul 31 Blog
By: Megan Sauter
A new DNA study reveals that the Philistines, the inhabitants of Ashkelon during Iron Age I, had predominantly European ancestry.
Jul 8 Blog
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
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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