Iron Age humans found mysteriously buried with dogs and horses
A meal? A companion? Part of a funeral rite? The theories behind co-burial persist.
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A meal? A companion? Part of a funeral rite? The theories behind co-burial persist.
A meal? A companion? Part of a funeral rite? The theories behind co-burial persist.
AMMAN — Pithos is the Greek name for a large storage container popular in the area of Mediterranean during the Neolithic, the Bronze and the Iron Age. The large container was used to keep fluids and grains in the household or during the maritime trade. Archaeologists found human bones in some pithoi as they were transformed into a coffin for funerary rituals. The huge lid
A new paper published in the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv suggests that the Israelites conquered Tel Shiqmona in southern Haifa in the ninth century BC in order to control the lucrative purple dye production at the site.
In the years 58-51 BC, Gaul was conquered and added to the Roman Empire through the military campaigns of Julius Caesar and his legions. For the first time ...