Archaeology
USS Herring’s final resting place confirmed 82 years after being lost in WWII
Herring and her 83 crew were presumed lost after failing to report to Midway on July 13, 1944. She was stricken from the Navy Register four months later.
New identification technique pushes back timeline of fire use to over a million years ago - study
Archaeologists find over 3,000 artifacts from Stone Age to WWII in Netherlands valley
Greece returns over 1,000 coins to Turkey in joint effort against antiquities smuggling
Egypt exhibits rare artifact from King Tut's tomb, two restored New Kingdom tombs in Luxor
The tombs that were opened are those of Rabuya and his son Samut from the 18th Dynasty, the first of the New Kingdom dynasties. Rabuya and Samut served as door keepers of the deity Amun.
Ancient tunnel with unknown age, purpose found near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel ahead of Jerusalem Day
After descending a set of ancient stairs from the surface, archaeologists found themselves standing at the hewn opening of the tunnel, found to be filled with hundreds of years of ancient sewage.
Heritage Minister taps INEXTG CEO Esther Shreiber for next IAA director, first woman in role
Her appointment will soon be submitted for approval by the IAA’s council and the government.
US returns two rare, ancient coins to Israel following joint antiquities theft investigation
One of the coins, depicting the Temple's seven-branched menorah, was minted in Hasmonean-ruled Jerusalem, while the other, the second of its kind ever found, was minted in ancient Ashkelon.
Central-Eastern Europe's oldest Neanderthal group identified by DNA taken from teeth - study
Notably, three of the teeth - two belonging to children and one to an adult - taken from different sediment layers within the cave, all shared identical mitochondrial DNA.
Knesset advances in first reading bill to form Israeli antiquities authority in West Bank
Should the bill pass, it would shift responsibility currently belonging to the Defense Ministry to the Heritage Ministry.
Eight-year-old boy visiting Ramon Crater finds over 1,700-year-old statue fragment hidden in rocks
“I was looking for special things on the ground that I could show in class,” Wolynitz shared. “ Suddenly, I noticed an interesting stone with stripes lying on the ground, and picked it up.”
Wooden platform older than Stonehenge found hidden beneath man-made island in Scotland
The analysis found that the crannog started out as a circular wooden platform, measuring at around 23 meters across, and topped with brushwood.
Scientists find traces of rare 'imperial' Tyrian purple dye found in Roman infant burials in York
Tyrian’s costly nature comes from the difficulty of its creation - made in a process similar to that of tekhelet, the blue dye traditionally used in Judaism to color strings of the tzizit.
US repatriates over 300 artifacts to Italy, including ancient Roman funerary stone found by FBI
Among the most significant items unveiled at the ceremony were a marble head of Alexander the Great dating to the first century CE, which was stolen from a Rome museum in 1960.
