The world’s oldest wheat comes from Çatalhöyük, according to DNA anaylsis of 8,500-year-old grains from the Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia. At a conference of Egyptologists, Rodolfo Fattovich of the Oriental Studies University of Naples, and Kathryn Bard of Boston University, presented their preliminary findings on the rigging ropes they discovered in a cave three […]

Romanian officials have handed over a 3,000-year-old pot to the Iranian Embassy in Bucharest. Border police recovered the artifact last year from a truck driven by an Iranian.  Two wine presses bearing large carved crosses were found at St. Catherine’s Monastery near Egypt’s Mount Sinai. Archaeologists think that the wine produced there was shipped to […]