Misplaced 2,000-year-old ring unearthed in Jerusalem’s City of David Some 2,000 years ago, a Jewish penitent misplaced a bronze ring during his climb of a 600-meter-long (about 2,000 feet) pilgrims’ thoroughfare leading to the Temple Mount. While the recently recovered ring is today heavily corroded, its central blue semi-precious stone still sparkles. The ring was …

Mind-blowing 1,600-year-old biblical mosaics paint a new picture of Galilean life The spectacular biblical mosaic of 1600 years old found in Northern Israel was discovered by archaeologists. On the site of a Synagogue in Huqoq from the fifth century, the mosaic was discovered, which depicts a scene in the book of Exodus. Director of Excavation Jodi Magness, Professor in …

Sixth-Century Statue Discovered in Cambodia Officials and historians from the Siem Reap Provincial Department of Environment conducting research on a large Makara animal statue carved on a rock at the Phnom Kulen National Park in Siem Reap province’s Svay Loeu district. Sun Kong, the Provincial Environmental Department director said yesterday that a resident discovered the head …

3,000-Year-Old Hebrew Inscription Discovered Archeologists at Tel Abel Beth Macaah, a joint dig between Azusa Pacific University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have recently exposed a nearly 3,000-year-old jar with the Hebrew inscription. The ink inscription reads “lbnayo,” meaning “belonging to Benaiyo.” This implies that an Israelite man named Benaiyo lived in Abel Beth …

Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall, England. Scientists have revealed tin ingots from more than 3,000 years ago found in Israel. They have established that ancient tin ingots found in Israel actually came from what is now modern-day Britain. Archaeologists believe it shows that tin was transported …

Thanks to Heavy Rains: Ritual Baths for Temple now fully functional for first time in 2,000 years Two thousand years ago, Jews from all over Israel attended the Holy Temple in Jerusalem three times a year to worship God, as the Bible commands Three times a year—on the festival of Pesach, on the festival of Shavuot, and …

Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago A new study has found that prehistoric humans have preserved bone marrow in their caves for up to nine weeks as a soup pot. Researchers previously thought that Paleolithic people lived a hand-to-mouth existence but this research shows they were sophisticated enough to preserve …

Stonewall points to Japan’s oldest castle keep built by Nobunaga This seems like another pile of rocks to the uninitiated. But stones unearthed here apparently consтιтute part of the oldest castle keeps ever built in Japan. The stones form part of the top section of the base of a Gifu Castle keep likely built by legendary …

Farmer Digging a well find the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in China When farmers Yang Zhifa found a piece of an old terracotta as he dug a well, he thought he’d stumbled on a disused kiln that could supply him with free jars. How wrong he was: it turned out to be the …