SIEGE RAMPS AND BREACHED WALLS: ANCIENT WARFARE AND THE ASSYRIAN CONQUEST OF LACHISH

Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021

Back in the day, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s superpowers, controlling a land mass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished this feat with military technologies that...

WHEN ARCHAIC HOMO MET HOMO SAPIENS

Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021

New Fossils Reveal Interactions Between Ancient Human Groups Living Together in the Levant (Jerusalem, June 24, 2021)— A recent archeological dig in central Israel unearthed evidence...

Sealed, Signed and Delivered

Thursday, Jun 10, 2021

Sealed, Signed and Deliver Hebrew University Archaeologists Unveil 7,000 Year Old Seal Impressions Used for Commerce and Protection of Property (Jerusalem, June 10, 2021)— A team of...

WE’VE BEEN AT IT A LONG TIME: Hebrew University Researchers Unveil Oldest Evidence of Human Activity in African Desert Cave

Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021

Few sites in the world preserve a continuous archaeological record spanning millions of years. Wonderwerk Cave, located in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, is one of those rare sites. Meaning...

A 120,000 Year Old Message?

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021

Israeli and French Researchers Uncover Prehistoric Bone With Etchings Believed to be one of the Oldest Evidence of Human Use of Symbols While scientists and historians have long surmised that...

Holocaust Memory in the Shadow of Pandemic; Hebrew University Study Analyzes How Corona Has Changed How We Remember

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021

“This global crisis created a far more accepting culture for the role digital media must play in remembrance.” (JERUSALEM – January 26, 2021) As the world prepares to...

Alfred Landecker Foundation Announces $13 Million Dollar Grant to Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020

Largest-Ever German-Israeli Academic Grant to Promote Research on Human Rights and Minority Protection in Age of Rising Nationalism and Authoritarianism The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded...

HU demographics expert analyzes Western Europe’s Jewish “communities”

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2020

Hebrew University demographic expert Prof. Sergio Della Pergola The Heichal David u-Mordechai Synagogue in Milan AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In North America, when Jews say they...

Archaeologists Find Fishing Spot Used for 10,000 Years in Northern Israel

Sunday, Jul 12, 2020

Editor’s note: A team of archaeologists, doctors, natural historians, earth scientists, life scientists and anthropologists collaborated in this research and subsequent findings. Three of the 12...

HU archeologist examines evolution of dance from prehistory to the Bible

Sunday, Jun 28, 2020

Engraved dancing figures from Nevali Çori, Neolithic Near East. In the 1990s, leading Israeli scholar Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew...

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