An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient humans dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves.

Ancient artefacts from Gaza – amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more – tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...

When you dig here you touch the Bible with your own hands,” said Yossi Dagan, chairman of the Samaria Regional Council.The post Israel kicks off transformation of biblical Sebastia into ...

In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, ...

Joanna Lumley returns to ITV, this time embarking on a rip-roaring adventure across the heart of Europe following the most ...

Step into a storybook town where whitewashed walls are punctuated by flower-filled patios and a mosque dating back more than ...

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

Now, by applying diversity tools from ecology to ancient name data, researchers found that the Kingdom of Israel had much greater name variety than the southern kingdom, hinting at deeper social ...

A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...

Israel Finkelstein from the University of Haifa, and Prof. Eli Piasetzky, a physicist from Tel Aviv University, drew from the ancient names recorded in the open-access Onomasticon.net database.