A royal garden dating to the seventh century B.C. has been discovered near Jerusalem. The garden was irrigated and decorated with carved stone gutters, open channels, closed tunnels, and waterfalls. An article in Historical Archaeology tells how railroad officials diverted a new rail line around New Philadelphia, Illinois, the first town in the U.S. to […]

Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer has died after falling at Herodion. He was 76. Pressure flaking, a sophisticated technique used to make stone tools, was invented in southern Africa 75,000 years ago, according to researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It had been thought that pressure flaking was first employed 20,000 years ago in […]