Carbon-dating indicates that an inscribed piece of pottery found at the Elah Fortress bears the earliest known writing used by ancient Hebrews. The 3,000-year-old text “is a social statement, relating to slaves, widows, and orphans,” said Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa. A Sumerian settlement has been discovered in southern Iraq.   French scientists have […]

 Japanese scientists have found 40-million-year-old relics of bornavirus in the human genome. Bornavirus replicates in the nuclei of infected cells, and may have caused genetic mutations.  A French court has ruled that Korean books dating to the nineteenth century will stay in the National Library of France, where they were spotted in 1975 by a […]