Oldest tablet with Moses' Ten Commandments to go on sale in NYC
The 1,500-year-old marble slab is the oldest-known inscription of the Ten Commandments. The Bible states Moses received them ...
Jewish Press18h
Mourning Malfunction
Yaakov knew even before Yosef was sold that he and his family would go down to Egypt. If not, why would he buy a future burial plot for Yosef – the first thing he did before settling in Eretz Yisrae ...
The Times of Israel1d
A claim that the earliest alphabet was found in Syria sparks a media maelstrom – finally
A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...
Greek Reporter2d
Mummies with Golden Tongues Found in 2,500-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt
Archaeologists have discovered two ancient tombs in Egypt containing the mummies of a man and woman with golden tongues and ...
Interesting Engineering2d
‘Guard eternal spring’: 500-year-old message on bowl piece reveals ancient trade links
Michael Chenin, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, noticed a colorful object sticking out of the ground ...
Artnet4d
Does This Newly Unearthed Bust Depict Cleopatra? Experts Are Divided
Egyptologists are arguing whether a bust just found at Taposiris Magna actually depicts the famed empress Cleopatra VII.
sambadenglish4d
Ptolemaic-period tombs uncovered in Egypt
A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered several Ptolemaic-period (332-30 BC) tombs in Al-Bahnasa ...
Marble bust possibly depicting Cleopatra’s ‘true face’ excavated in Egypt
Recent excavations at Taposiris Magna near Alexandria have uncovered a marble bust of a woman believed to be the 'true face' ...
Ancient Greco-Roman site — later used in WWII — unearthed in Egypt. See inside
In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...
Ancient Egyptians Got High to Seek Transcendence Through Altered States of Consciousness, Archaeologists Say
Now we have proof via DNA and chemical analyses that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared potion, to ...