The site, which dates between 6900 and 6300 BC, is approximately 10 meters below current sea level and covers an area of 40,000 square meters.
Tectonic tilting and climatic changes caused swamps along the Israeli coastal plain to dry up at the start of the Holocene. The reclaimed land along the retreating shoreline was settled by Neolithic peoples during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNB) and later Pottery Neolithic Periods, until a eustatic rise in ocean sea levels submerged the ancient settlements to a depth of 8-12 meters beneath the surface.
Scientists believe that Atlit-Yam was abandoned abruptly as a result of a tsunami that hit the region, most likely caused by a volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean area.
Archaeologists were particularly interested in the discovery of two skeletons, one of a woman and one of a child, which revealed the earliest known cases of tuberculosis.
The artifact is dated to approximately 800–1,200 years ago, corresponding to the transitional period between late prehistory and early protohistory in northern regions such as Alberta, Canada….
The estimated age of this specimen ranges between 28,000 and 30,000 years, corresponding to the late Pleistocene, a period when the thick layers of Arctic ice and…
The engraved monolith depicting a multi-armed anthropomorphic figure and surrounding symbols, shown in the vintage pH๏τograph, is believed to date from the early 20th-century era of European…
The stone formation resembling a “giant hand” on the mountainside was first documented between 2021 and 2022 by a local survey team conducting stratigraphic measurements in a…
The stone structure depicted in the image is an exceptional example of a Galician hórreo, a raised granary commonly found in northwestern Spain, particularly the autonomous region…
In the heart of what would become the United States, the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, has long been etched into history. Founded in…
