Ruth Schuster

Rediscovered right on the edge of a bustling town, frantic archeologist calls not only delayed a highway to be through it, but got the route rerouted to a bridge over it. Why is this cave so valuable?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written over centuries, and now fresh analysis may shed light on material origins. How does the Egyptian papyrus industry come into the story?

Ruth Schuster (via Haaretz.com) The Dead Sea Scrolls were written over centuries, and now fresh analysis may shed light on material origins.

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For animals to be fruitful, the sexes have to find each other accurately, or at least have a way to communicate 'Dude. You got that wrong'

The dual nature of humanity may have emerged much earlier than thought, going by the survival of a person slammed in the jaw in Qafzeh Cave, and some pretty sick children

While grimly pitted against the Romans, the Jews hated each other too, which may have led some to adopt an alternative calendar handed down to Moses, according to the apocrypha

Flecks of true amber detected in Xinjiang date to the Middle Devonian, pushing back the origin of resin secretion by at least 65 million years

The petite 'Likweli' colobus was discovered in the treetops of the Congo rainforest, surviving in a relict range between rivers

This is the second set of wooden roofing found in a mysterious building that burned down in 586 B.C.E., but when was it erected?