Efforts to find artifacts buried in soil removed from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in the 1990s have ground to a halt following financial cutbacks, the project’s directors announced Sunday. The Temple ...

Last summer, Michigan State University construction workers made an unlikely discovery while installing hammocks on campus. The workers reported hitting “a hard impenetrable surface” which turned out ...

Soil collected last year by the Mars rover Curiosity may contain two percent water, researchers report. Laurie Leshin of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute describes what else the rover is finding in ...

Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel. For three of the world’s faiths, the Temple Mount bears special sanctity and significance. For archaeologists, the ...

A month after work on a restoration project at St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery outside Ojai stopped due to community concerns, workers last week started to move dirt again. On Oct. 3, crews began to sift ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series on the end of the Tse-whit-zen archaeological excavation on the Port Angeles waterfront. The first part, which appeared in Sunday’s editions, ...

14:55, Thu, Oct 24, 2024 Updated: 15:26, Thu, Oct 24, 2024 Gardeners are being urged to sift soil with an old salad spinner this autumn. The unusual gardening hack has been identified by experts as ...

A washing machine that separates important forensic evidence from soil has been developed by researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing. They say the device could save valuable time for ...