Quipus are the mysterious bundles of colored and knotted threads that served as the Inca empire’s means of recording information. The code of the quipus has long since been forgotten, and the only major advance in understanding them was the insight, made in 1923, that the knots were used to represent numbers. The quantity and […]

Here is a good way to hide dinosaur tracks: Wait tens of millions of years while the footsteps fossilize under a shallow sea that will later become Texas, dig up the tracks just before World War II, put plaster around the sides, paint the whole thing a whimsical muddy red, take it to Brooklyn and […]

Sections of the earliest phase of the Shiloah Pool are being uncovered next to the city wall and below the staircase of the Shiloah Pool dating to the Second Temple period. These remains, which probably date to the time of the First Temple, are mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah (3:15): "And he built the […]

CAIRO, August 09 — Egypt announced that remnants of an ancient church and some other archaeological finds have been unearthed in the Red Sea area. The mud brick foundations of the church were discovered under the Apostles Church, which dates back to the 15th century and is considered one of the key churches of Anba […]

Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the old city of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John. The […]

JERUSALEM An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what she believes may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David. Her work has been sponsored by the Shalem Center, a neoconservative think tank in Jerusalem, and funded by an American Jewish investment banker who would like to help provide scientific support […]

Newswise — In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell University team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000 year old inscriptions using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging. The research, carried out at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), applies a nondestructive chemical […]