A study of genetic drift on the X chromosome indicates that men significantly outnumbered women on the migration “Out of Africa” some 60,000 years ago. Alon Keinan of the Harvard Medical School says that his team’s findings are “in line with what anthropologists have taught us about hunter-gatherer populations in which short distance migration is […]

A hoard of gold coins was discovered in a seventh-century building in Jerusalem. “Since no pottery vessel was discovered adjacent to the hoard, we can assume it was concealed inside a hidden niche in one of the walls of the building,” said Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Two-million-year-old tools found […]