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A rare coin of the last Hasmonean King found in the possession of a suspected thief

ByDilek Yazıcı
June 7, 2023

Police searched East Jerusalem overnight and recovered dozens of illegally excavated ancient coins, including a rare coin from the time of the last Hasmonean king of Judea 2,000 years ago.

Lost village buried in the ocean for 600 years.

ByElif Duluk
June 6, 2023

The main church of the medieval settlement of Rungholt, dubbed the ‘Atlantis of the North Sea’, has been found in the ocean.

The Romans were apparently interested in hair removal 2000 years ago.

ByElif Duluk
June 3, 2023

It turns out that our obsession with hair removal dates back to Roman times.

Image of odd nose monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana).

Anthropology

How did adaptations to living in cold climates favor social evolution?

ByDilek Yazıcı
June 1, 2023

Scientists have found answers to how a species’ long-term adaptation to living in an extremely cold climate changes its social evolution.

Anthropology

Neanderthals produced synthetic material through underground distillation

ByElif Duluk
May 30, 2023

The scientists matched several birch tar production processes to the chemical byproducts discovered on prehistoric Neanderthals implements.

An Egyptian antiquities worker scrubs an embalming bed at the ancient workshop in Saqqara.

News

Ancient workshops discovered near Cairo, Egypt

ByDilek Yazıcı
May 29, 2023

Ancient workshops have been discovered in a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the Egyptian capital Cairo.

An overhead image of the Anda test site, where archaeologists discovered a WWII Japanese military underground biological weapons research bunker.

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Horrific World War II bunker for biological weapons experiments

ByAhmet Mengüç
May 28, 2023

Archaeologists discovered a terrible World War II bunker where Japanese scientists tested biological weapons on inmates.

The toilet seat in Armon ha-Natziv, where parasite was found.

ByElif Duluk
May 27, 2023

The limestone slab, which resembled a toilet seat and had an access hole, was discovered in a home said to have belonged to a wealthy, high ranking family in a historic section of Jerusalem, Israel.