A 1,500-year-old tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments is set to go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York this ...

My heart is breaking. My soul is aching,” an archaeologist said, as Israel’s bombardment threatens or destroys Roman amphitheaters, crusaders’ citadels and centuries-old souks.

The discovery has been published in the recent study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman of ...

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

The marble is inscribed in Hebrew (the characters are Paleo-Hebrew ... The stone was probably displayed in a synagogue in ...

For decades it was merely a sidewalk stone at a home in the Middle East, its significance unbeknownst to its owner. Now, the ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

The oldest known stone tablet featuring the Ten Commandments is set for auction at Sotheby’s and may sell for as much as $2 ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...