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Jewish-Roman rebel hiding place uncovered: Now it is your turn to enter

In the hills of the Adullam-France Park lies a site telling nearly 2,000 years of history: Bar Kokhba-era tunnels, burial caves, and a Byzantine church.

Horbat Burgin in the Judean Shephelah.
A play of light and shadow, glass and ceramics overlooking the sea, Sidna Ali.

The Herzliya caveman: The final days of the cliff palace

Human skeleton from a flooded cave along Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Rare 8,000-year-old human remains found in Mexican underwater cave

Rural landscape, Cumbria, Lake District, UK, February 25, 2026.

Meet Britain's oldest Northerner: The ‘Ossick Lass' buried over 11,000 years ago - study


Researchers discovers world's first eyeless wasp deep in Australian caves

The wasp discovered is the only known species worldwide to exhibit such dramatic adaptations for life in complete darknes.

 Researchers discovers world's first eyeless wasp deep in Australian caves.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

Discovery reinforces advanced cognitive abilities of early homo sapiens in Europe.

 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Oldest in the world? 42,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang found in Polish cave

Discovery reinforces advanced cognitive abilities of early homo sapiens in Europe.

 Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right.

Scientists reconstruct face of 10,000-year-old prehistoric woman found in Belgian cave

The public is invited to choose a name for the prehistoric woman, with options including Margo, Freyà, and Mos'anne, reflecting her habitat and cultural significance.

 Scientists reconstruct face of 10,000-year-old prehistoric woman found in Belgian cave.

Dargan cave findings reveal humans lived in Australia's Blue Mountains during last Ice Age

The findings upended long-held beliefs about how humans moved through the mountains and challenges long-held assumptions about ancient human life in Australia.

 Blue Mountains National Park, Australia.

China pulls decade of rubbish from park that inspired sci-fi film 'Avatar'

The Zhangjiajie park is a UNESCO heritage site that provided inspiration for the scenery in director James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi film.

 A view of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China's southern Hunan province May 10, 2004.

Evidence of human habitation from up to 700,000 years ago found in Iran's Qaleh Kurd cave

Findings suggest the presence of cultural remains from homo heidelbergensis or even older species before neanderthals.

 Alamut, Qazvin, Iran.

Christian pilgrim chapel and Saint Salome inscriptions found in Judean cave

Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and multilingual graffiti.

 The courtyard of the Salome Cave.

Archaeologists date 80,000-year-old Neanderthal bone spearhead found in North Caucasus cave

This finding disproves the myth of Neanderthals' primitiveness: they planned complex composite tools.

 Archaeologists date 80,000-year-old Neanderthal bone spearhead found in North Caucasus cave.

Archaeologists discover first known Maya tattooing tools in Belize cave

Microscopic analysis reveals tools had wear patterns consistent with tattooing on skin.

 Archaeologists discover first known Maya tattooing tools in Belize cave. Illustration.