12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (503+ words) Lock Haven, Pa. — Along Route 42 in Sullivan County, about halfway between Eagles Mere and Laporte, there’s one of those blue historic markers. It stands near a set of ruins, what remains of an old community. The spot has quite a…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (626+ words) Archaeologists have discovered wooden beams believed to have been burned during the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE….The beams, made of sycamore wood, were unearthed during a recent dig at the Jerusalem Walls National Park in the City…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (375+ words) The image, taken during the hot summer of 1995, showed a series of parch marks in the grass at Temple Newsam in Leeds, revealing that something once stood there. Phil Jones, who helped lead the dig, said everywhere the group had…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (100+ words) Albert Lin seeks out the truth behind two great stories of the Bible. Could real events lie behind the parting of the Red Sea and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? To solve these mysteries Albert will use satellites and…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (671+ words) Finestre sull'Arte - Villa Adriana: An Inscription Discovered That Reveals a Site Consecrated After a Lightning Strike New evidence of the ancient Roman rite associated with the consecration of sites struck by lightning has come to light at the Villa Adriana…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (543+ words) Archaeologists excavating the ancient Bosporan settlement of Artezian have uncovered a remarkable ritual landscape where offerings were deliberately lowered into the earth, vessels were turned upside down for chthonic deities, and a powerful earthquake appears to have interrupted food preparation…...

5+ day, 7+ min ago   (344+ words) PHNOM PENH – Two major waves of Cambodia-Thailand border clashes last year caused significant damage to the Temple of Preah Vihear, prompting experts to call for urgent unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and safeguarding of broken fragments. The clashes in July and…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (236+ words) The roofing project at the Cave of the Patriarchs (Me'arat Hamachpelah) was completed and inaugurated Wednesday, following years of planning and procedures to advance the project. The new roof over the compound's inner courtyard, known as Jacob's Courtyard, covers approximately…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (284+ words) Ancient Origins The Wooden Structure Built 476,000 Years Ago Before Our Species Existed Someone engineered a wooden structure 476,000 years ago. Yes you read it correctly… That sentence should not fit the history most of us were taught. The oldest widely accepted…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (261+ words) The psalmist Asaph, when recounting the history of Israel, said that God was provoked to anger with their high places; they moved Him to jealousy with their idols (Psalm 78:57–58). Jeremiah prophesied that idolatry and syncretistic worship of God was one…...