Aug 10 Blog
By: Trevor Bryce
In the latter part of the second millennium B.C., the Hittite empire was a Near Eastern superpower. Then, suddenly, the empire collapsed and Hattusa was invaded and destroyed.
Jul 6 Blog
By: Noah Wiener
In the 16th century B.C.E., Ahmose I overthrew the Hyksos and initiated the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom of Egypt. Recent archaeological discoveries at Tel Habuwa shed new light on Ahmose’s campaign.
Jun 29 Blog
A recent study on mitochondrial DNA revealed that the female line of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry closely resembles that of Southern and Western Europe, rather than the ancient Near East, as many scholars proposed in the past.
Jun 1 Blog
By: Robin Ngo
For the first time, researchers have conducted DNA sequencing on ancient Canaanite skeletons and have determined where the Canaanites’ descendants can be found today.
May 19 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Minoan Linear A is one of the most famous undeciphered scripts from the ancient world. In use from around 1800 to 1450 BCE, it continues […]
Apr 29 Blog
By: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and John R. Hale
According to Strabo and other sources, the Pythia who gave prophecies on behalf of Apollo was inspired by mysterious vapors. Is there evidence that intoxicating gases actually drifted through the Temple of Apollo at Delphi?
Feb 18 Blog
Crete’s Minoan civilization has long been considered Europe’s first great Bronze Age society. But who were the Minoans? A recent DNA study suggests that the Minoan civilization comprised of local Europeans rather than outsiders.
Nov 7 Blog
Archaeologists in western Crete have made a fascinating discovery, the skull of a sacrificed Minoan bull. The discovery was made in the cemetery complex associated […]
Nov 14 Blog
Megiddo’s Great Temple is a structure that, according to its excavators, “has proven to be the most monumental single edifice so far uncovered in the EB I Levant and ranks among the largest structures of its time in the Near East.”
Oct 1 Blog
By: Jonathan Laden
Tel Kabri, a 75-acre site in the western Galilee had been occupied by the Canaanites for centuries. Then, about 1900-1700 B.C.E.. the palace and the […]
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