Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the oldest winemaking presses in the world, discovered in an excavation (photo credit: Yakov Shmidov, Israel Antiquities ...

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In the most recent whole-genome study of ancient remains from the Near East, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators sequenced the entire genomes of 4,000-year-old Canaanite ...

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Archaeologists from Israel have discovered an ancient comb that has what they believe is the oldest complete sentence written in Canaanite alphabetical script. The 3,700-year-old comb’s inscription ...

An ancient 3,200-year-old Canaanite temple has been discovered in Israel which was part of a biblical city destroyed by Joshua. Inside, archaeologists found various statues of different gods, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While excavating near the ancient city of Armageddon in Israel, archaeologists unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite "tea set," a ...

The first rain of the season lashed Tel Burna Sunday, drenching what archaeologists say could be a 3,300-year-old shrine to the storm god Ba’al, whose offerings poured down on the Judean foothills.

Archaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an alphabet used by the long-ago inhabitants of the region and until now lost to time. The ...

Six-year-old Imri Elya was awarded a "good citizenship" certificate for discovering a rare, small Canaanite tablet near an Israeli archaeological site. Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority ...