An ancient collection that was recently given to Israel’s Haifa University allows researchers a unique opportunity to see how the region was portrayed in maps by European scholars.

Below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ... within a medieval Islamic religious school are Roman latrines and a recently unearthed small theater—the first found in ancient Jerusalem ...

The Iron Age users of two ancient toilets in Jerusalem were not ... had previously been identified in Roman-era Turkey and in medieval Israel. “Dysentery is spread by faeces contaminating ...

But Mr Fingernagel says it is very different from other medieval maps and is clearly a copy of a much earlier document, dating back to the 5th century. "In maps from the 12th or 13th century, ...

Extracting ancient ... Jerusalem. But unlike today's genetic uniformity, it turns out that the community was more diverse 600 years ago. Digging into the ancient DNA of 33 Ashkenazi Jews from ...

Excavation of the medieval ... University of Jerusalem. But unlike today’s genetic uniformity, it turns out that the community was more diverse 600 years ago. Digging into the ancient DNA ...