1+ week, 3+ day ago   (562+ words) The previously unknown author of a postcard sent to Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer praising her song Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) has been revealed to be Six-Day War veteran Aharon Bar-Oz, the National Library of Israel announced on Sunday....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1686+ words) For Adrianna Turk, 74, the past was long defined by a profound, unyielding silence. Growing up, family history was not discussed; it was a blank space, a closed door behind which lay the devastating wreckage of the Holocaust. Her father, originally…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (864+ words) There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1081+ words) I’m standing with my husband at the port in Thessaloniki, a vital commercial hub on the Aegean Sea connecting Southern Europe with the Balkans. I’m thinking of the Jewish stevedores who once worked these docks, and of those who later…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1209+ words) Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50,000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his own execution. Before he met the gallows, Stroop described in unrepentant detail his ascent as a Nazi, his…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (615+ words) Researchers have restored sections of a large fresco depicting the Greek god Dionysus and Ariadne of Pompeii’s Casa con Pacificio (House with Bakery”), the archaeological park announced in a post to social media in late July. The restored ceiling is…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (316+ words) Around 25 limestone turtle figurines believed to be up to 16,500 years old were discovered inside a cave at Gedikkaya Hill in northwestern Turkey, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported in late August. According to Anadolu Agency, radiocarbon dating of the site places…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (674+ words) Two groups of researchers are defending the view that the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile was occupied by ancient hunter-gatherers about 14,500 years ago after another study indicated it was much younger — a debate with major implications for understanding the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (366+ words) Amid the debris six meters beneath Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, roadworks that have frustrated residents have yielded an archaeological prize: a cache of 10th-century pottery among the oldest medieval works ever found in the Georgian capital. Work on Rustaveli Avenue, the…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (511+ words) Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed two ancient finds during excavations in the ancient city of Tralleis in Turkey’s southwest province of Aydin as part of the country’s "Legacy for the Future" project at the site. Two weeks ago, Turkey’s Culture…...