New study demonstrates that certain incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently discovered in northern Israel, ...

These included cooking pots, jars with fragments of ancient Hebrew inscriptions, loom weights, scarabs, stamped seals with decorative motifs, and grinding stones used for crushing grains.

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Credit: Eli Shukron / Israel Antiquities Authority Items included cooking pots, jars inscribed in ancient Hebrew, loom weights for weaving, decorative seals, scarabs, and grinding stones for milling ...

Winemakers facing the adverse effects of climate change should revive ancient wine grape varieties that survived ... and plenty of sun exposure to enhance the tannins that contribute to a wine’s taste ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...