Orit Shamir of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Naama Sukenik of Bar-Ilan University have studied the plain, linen textiles found in the caves at Qumran in order to try to determine who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. “They wanted to be different than the Roman world. They were very humble, they didn’t want to wear […]

New CT scans of Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen body was found in the Italian Alps 20 years ago, show that he suffered a deep cut over his right eye. “Maybe he fell down or maybe he had a fight up there, nobody knows. With this cut alone, at 3,250 meters, it would have been […]