Some 9,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, one of the worlds first large farming communities, were among the first humans to experience some of the dangers of modern urban life. Scientists studying the ruins of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, found that its inhabitants - between 3,500
Also called Siloam tunnel due to the inscription discovered in it, which tells the story of its opening, the Hezekiah Tunnel is an underground water conduction under the city of David in Jerusalem. Mentioned in the Bible (Kings 2, 20:20) as the work of King Hezekiah within the preparations for the d
Sixteen burials found in rock-cut tombs have been discovered at the archaeological site of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria, Egypt. One of the mummies kept a gold leaf in the mouth. Funerary statues and masks discovered at Taposiris Magna (Egypt). 2000-year-old faces resurrected from Antiquity
A chilling legacy of the Cold War, an archaeologist has studied former Soviet bunkers in Poland that once housed nuclear warheads. A remnant of the cold war, one of the granite bunkers in Podborsko, hidden under vegetation cover, in western Poland. The archeology of contemporary conflict sites i