Analysis of 3,500-year-old Pottery Found in Tombs at the Site of Armageddon Reveals the Canaanites Made Wine Offerings for Their Dearly Departed – Even for Newborns
Traces of psychoactive drug found in pottery from Tel Yehud; with new forensic scientific protocols at sites in Israel, discovery may herald many exciting new 'firsts'
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King Herod has the reputation of being a tyrant in his time, but he did leave an impressive mark on the landscape of Judea. Now we know a little more about how he achieved it.
The assumption had been that the alabaster for the royal hygienic furnishings and other artifacts in Second Temple-period Judea was Egypt. Not so, analysis at Bar-Ilan University finds