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  Researchers exploring the Umm Jirsan Lava Tube system.

Humans occupied lava tube in northern Saudi Arabia as shelter for thousands of years

 An assistant compares a fossilised tooth of a giant whale called Leviathan against the whale's fossilised jaw at the Natural History Museum in Lima June 30, 2010. The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man's forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologis

Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father

By REUTERS
The clay token found in the sifting of dirt from the Temple Mount bearing the Greek Inscription ΔΟΥ-ΛΟ[Υ] (DOULOU)

Temple Mount earth-filtering project discovers ancient clay tokens

Bolivian amateur palaeontologist, Omar Medina, puts his hand in a dinosaur footprint in an area called Tunasniyoj

Ancient art and fossils: Study reveals early humans' understanding of dinosaurs

 The prehistoric Ubeidiya site where an ancient vertebrae was discovered

'Garden of Eden': Israel's Jordan Valley opens new national park

  Illustration of elephant hunting using spears

New Tel Aviv University study claims connection with elephant hunting, Paleolithic quarries

 A tourist looks at a statue named "Moai" at Easter Island, Chile February 13, 2019. Picture taken February 13, 2019.

Easter Island inhabitants had contact with South America over a thousand years ago, study finds

An eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world. The astronomical instrument was adapted, translated and corrected for centuries by Muslim, Jewish and Christian users.

Rare astrolabe discovery in Verona reveals Islamic-Jewish scientific collaboration 900 years ago

 The excavation of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Megiddo

1,800-year-old Roman Legionary Base discovered at Tel Megiddo

 A new study conducted in the ancient Roman ruins of Houten-Castellum in the Netherlands claims Ancient Romans used poisonous nightshade as a hallucinogenic drug. (Illustrative)

Ancient Romans used hallucinogenic drugs, new study shows

This is the first physical evidence of the use of cannabis in the modern era not solely in Italy but also in Europe, the team noted. 

New study suggests 17th century Italians were cannabis users

 Major (res.) Eliashiv Buhbut with the mortar.

IDF reserve officers discover an ancient mortar

 Sidersaura marae, discovered in Argentina

New species of dinosaur discovered in Argentina

 A statue of Emperor Constantine.

Paganism to Christianity: Roman temple reveals ancient cultural blending

 Excavation of a Yamnaya kurgan by the YMPACT team of the University of Helsinki in cooperation with the Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology in Boldești-Grădiștea, Romania.

How a new genetic tool can help you track ancient relatives

 Giv‘ati Parking Lot Excavations at the City of David.

Oldest ceramic rooftiles ever found in the Land of Israel

The chronology of Gezer from the end of the late bronze age to iron age II: A meeting point for radiocarbon, archaeology egyptology and the Bible

Radiocarbon dating proves biblical accounts of the Israeli city of Gezer

Unexpected origin of Egypt's Great Sphinx discovered

By Walla!