Archaeological excavations outside the ancient city of Megiddo shed light on the area's Bronze Age alcohol production and a ...

A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes. Reading time 3 minutes 12,000-year-old bird bones found ...

Archaeologists traditionally rely on finding organic remains for radiocarbon dating to pinpoint new finds in time, but often these are not found on sites dating over 5,000 years ago. As a result, ...

Do the illustrations on a 4,000-year-old silver goblet tell a Babylonian creation myth? Scholars have thought so for the last ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...