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Raw wagyu beef.

Anything but lean and green: Early humans were apex meat-eaters, study finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aztec Calendar Stone.

Mexico went through extreme drought. The Aztecs sacrificed 42 children to Tlaloc, the god of rain

By JERUSALEM POST LITE STAFF

Zapotec ceramic large effigy urn with head of Bat God, Tomb 113, Monte Alban. Image by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. is used under license CC0 1.0

Archaeologists uncover underground tunnels beneath Mexican city associated with the god of death

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Kiss's beginning. Image by pedrosimoes7, licensed under CC BY 2.0

New study traces origin of human kissing to ancestral ape grooming

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Evelyn (Evi) Anca

Evelyn Anca’s ‘Tales from the Amazon’

By Galia Dochin Arieli

Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Modern man reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Trepanated skull of a woman-Tumb 3 Corseaux-En Seyton-on display 6, Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History.

Skull with 'execution-style wounds' sheds light on colonial Indonesia - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ancient sandals some 6,000 years old discovered at the Cueva de los Murciélagos in Albuñol, on the coast of Granada in Spain.

Ancient sandals unearthed in Spain may be the oldest footwear ever found

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro Nawas mountains, Namibia.

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal rock art in Namibia

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The remains of a palace-esque structure constructed in the ancient Mayan city of Kabah

Mexico uncovers 'elite' Mayan palace used to home ancient rulers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aerial view of the Lower Galilee from Tel Shimron excavation site.

Rare 3,800-year-old passageway and vault found in northern Israel

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE

Ancient site of Dadan at Al-'Ula, June 1, 2021.

7,000-year-old animal and human remains found in Saudi Arabian stone structures

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A structure at Ek' Balam.

Has Mexico solved the mystery of the Mayan Acropolis of Ek' Balam?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

WE MUST stand together against BDS and all forms of antisemitism.

AAA's boycott of Israel is discriminatory, academic association charges

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THEN-EDUCATION minister Naftali Bennett with Israeli Prize winner, anthropologist Deborah Bernstein, at the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem in 2019.

American Anthropological Association boycott of Israel will be to its detriment - opinion

By ALEX JOFFE , ASAF ROMIROWSKY

King Henry I.

Can the British woman who found Richard III's remains find another king?

By Walla! , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Woman with long, curly, brown hair.

What advantages did curly hair give to our early human ancestors?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH