400,000-Year-Old Teeth Tie Homo Erectus to Living People in Southeast Asia
A Nature study led by Qiaomei Fu pulled proteins from the enamel of six Homo erectus teeth from three Chinese sites (including Zhoukoudian, home of “Peking…
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30,000-Year-Old DNA Shows Ice Age Europeans Were More Connected Than We Thought
A team led by the University of Vienna says people across Ice Age Europe were much more connected than scientists believed. They studied ancient DNA from…
A 4,000-Year-Old Wall in Morocco Rewrites North Africa’s Story
At Oued Beht in northwest Morocco, archaeologists have found what looks like the earliest large-scale defensive construction in North Africa outside the Nile Valley. It’s about…
Noah’s Ark Team Says Radar Shows Chambers Inside the Durupınar Formation
A team scanning the boat-shaped Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat says its radar shows chambers, corridors and three levels inside the 515-foot structure. What they’re claiming…
Is Al-Maghtas Where Jesus Was Baptized? One Archaeologist Makes the Case
A quick note before the story: this is a claim, not a closed case. Charisma Magazine is relaying a Daily Mail report about an archaeologist’s argument,…
Abraham’s Four Altars: A Journey From Promise to Surrender
I love a good devotional that makes you slow down with Genesis. Charisma ran a piece on an episode of “Biblical Archaeology” on TBN that follows…
Ritual Baths at the Temple Gate — and the Day 3,000 Were Baptized
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University just announced a big one: a monumental purification complex at the foot of the Temple Mount, right by the Triple Gate…
Living Water From Bethlehem: Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct
The Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a roughly 300-meter (about 1,000-foot) stretch of Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct near Ramat Rachel. According to The Times of Israel, Hasmonean kings…
When the Dig Matches the Gospel
I’ve been a network guy a long time, and one habit never leaves you: you verify. You don’t trust a link because the diagram looks good.…