But settling in the Levant some 60,000 to 55,000 years ago, they found a landscape extirpated ... of why Levant has no cave art appeared first on The Times of Israel.

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had already gone extinct there, unlike in Europe. A scene from Upper ...

For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including modern-day Israel. This puzzle persists despite ...

The Heliodorus Stele, a looted artifact on display at the Israel Museum ... a 2,200-year-old artifact that was likely looted from a cave complex regularly excavated by young Jews traveling ...

The pilgrimage to Hebron marks the weekly Torah portion Chayei Sarah, in which the Biblical patriarch Abraham buys the Cave of the Patriarchs ... tents dotted the landscape near the tomb, where ...

Researchers say they have found the world's oldest brewery, with residue of 13,000-year-old beer, in a prehistoric cave near Haifa in Israel. The discovery was made while they were studying a ...

Early humans living in the southern Levant, including Israel, did not create the kind of exquisite cave art that their ... they found a landscape extirpated of any herbivorous megafauna, with ...