The remains of 42,000-year-old tuna and sharks have been found on East Timor, an island north of Australia. Susan O’Connor of Australian National University in Canberra says the fast-swimming, deep water fish “certainly suggest that people had advanced maritime skills,” in order to catch them. She also uncovered a 23,000-year-old fishhook made from a mollusk shell. […]

Coins found beneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall were minted 20 years after King Herod’s death, disproving the widely held belief that he completed the wall. “This bit of archaeological information illustrates the fact that the construction of the Temple Mount walls and [the adjacent] Robinson’s Arch was an enormous project that lasted decades and was not completed […]