Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Rising from the heart of ancient Israel, Mount Scopus overlooks the city of Jerusalem and its holy relics. Known in Hebrew as Har HaTzofim, or the ...

Looters, who are usually a plague on archaeology, unintentionally led to the discovery of a cave workshop complex in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus. Most of the artifacts found in the cave were limestone ...

In September 1940, 18-year-old Marcel Ravidad followed his dog into a hole near a fallen tree in the forest of Montignac, France. Inside, he stumbled upon a chamber covered in murals dating back ...

The sewn hide, pictured from the front and the back, alongside another hide artifact from Cougar Mountain Cave Richard L. Rosencrance, et al., Science Advances, 2026 Researchers say they may have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...

The entrance of Cougar Mountain Cave where artifacts were found dating back to more than 12,000 years old and where the oldest known sewn material was found. Illustrations and images of sewn hide and ...

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the artifacts found there. Upon his death in the 1980s, these items were ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

CAVE SPRINGS -- The city will update its 20-year comprehensive plan with an award-winning strategy designed to allow the downtown area to accommodate growth without compromising its character, ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...