The findings match those previously recorded from the Wadi Faynan region of Jordan. In that study—led from the Hebrew ...

Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient mining and metallurgy were highly toxic and dangerous, claiming the industry had a long-term, detrimental effect on the ...

Mazar: It seems to me that Jerusalem at the time of King David and King Solomon was very much like the Bible describes. It was monumental; the constructions were massive. They used the Phoenicians ...

New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from ...