One cave in what is now Western Galilee, Israel known as Manot Cave was used by humans for at least 55,000 years. This cave system has been studied for decades, and in 2015, scientists located a ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had already gone extinct there, unlike in Europe. A scene from Upper ...

For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including modern-day Israel. This puzzle persists despite ...

But in Israel, where Steinhardt’s name appears in ... that Steinhardt’s slab had been looted at some point from the cave where the fragments were found. Indeed, in 2005, when archeologist ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) may have found the answer to the question that has been puzzling archeologists for decades: Why is there no prehistoric cave art in the Levant, and ...

Rabbi Binyamin Hamra, the chief rabbi of the Syrian-Jewish community in Israel, sent an unordinary ... of renovating The Prophet Elijah's Cave in the village of Jobar near Damascus, which was ...

They’re often found in shallow pools of water, and a study recently published in Archaeometry revealed 50 cave pearls were found in an ancient tunnel in the Jerusalem Hills of Israel.

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a series of stone ... Close to the structure, archaeologists found a small cave filled with objects also dating to the eighth century B.C. — including ...

The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave walls in Israel, new research from Tel Aviv University published on Monday has suggested.