Ruth Schuster

About 9,550 years ago in what is today northern Malawi, hunter-gatherers built a pyre in a rock shelter to cremate a person short in statue but apparently, large in status. The pyre at Hora-1 is the earliest ritual cremation discovered to date in Africa b... See more

For all the attention devoted to human evolution, we still don't know who our direct ancestors were, let alone our distant ones. But now Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a primate that lived about 7 million years ago in North Africa, and looked like an ape, is ... See more

Right by two of the main entrances to the Second Temple that the Romans looted and destroyed in 70 C.E. was a large mikveh that likely served locals and the many pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on a rainy Monday morning. T... See more

A large cave featuring spectacular speleothem "rock growths" that formed over thousands –and possibly millions – of years has been discovered by the settlement of Ofra about 30 meters below the surface. This subterranean cavern features the full gamut of ... See more

We humans surprise ourselves. The earliest boomerang was made 40,000 years ago. In Poland. The agricultural revolution was eagerly embraced. Except when it wasn't. Moses wasn't the first to seek his god on a mountain, and the longest papyrus ever found in... See more