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  Did Homo Naledi Really Bury Its Dead? Now There Are Ways to Find Out

  Haaretz - Ruth Schuster

  Around a quarter of a million years ago, a small-brained hominin named Homo naledi was living on the coast of South Africa. What it was doing there …

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  New Studies Debunk Controversial Biblical ‘Curse Tablet’ From Mt. Ebal

  Haaretz - Ariel David

  Look! It’s a 3,400-year-old inscribed lead tablet that could prove the historicity of the Bible. But actually there is no discernible writing on it …

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  Why Were There Lions in the Towns of Biblical Israel – as Predators, or Trophies?

  Haaretz - Ruth Schuster

  “My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame” – Psalms 57:5 The Near East, the birthplace of modern civilization, is riddled with …

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  Israeli Archaeologists Find Earliest Evidence of War in Southern Levant

  Haaretz - Ruth Schuster

  Almost 8,000 years ago, people in the Galilee and Sharon plain were preparing for war. This postulation is based on the mass production of shaped …

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  Prehistoric Australians Buried Their Dingoes With the Family in the Sky

  Haaretz - Ruth Schuster

  “The only domestic animal they have is the dog, which in their language is called Dingo” – explorer Watkin Tench, “Narrative of the Expedition to …

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  How Many Israelis Died? Archaeologists Join Efforts to Locate Human Remains

  Haaretz - Yossi Melman

  Wearing gray gloves and with a soot-blackened face, Dr. Joe Uziel shakes the thin mesh screen, which rests on four legs and has a tub-like receptacle …