Tag: archeological

Genetic Study Reveals How Ancient Seafarers Settled Vast Polynesia

WASHINGTON—Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of Polynesia, the planet’s last habitable region to be settled by people. A genetic study published on Wednesday has deciphered the timing and sequence of this settlement of an area spanning about a…


Archeologists Uncover New Sections of 2,000-Year-Old Tunnels in Western Wall in Jerusalem

The remains of Jerusalem’s Western Wall—some 2,000 years old—yielded some incredible architectural discoveries in the 19th century. Recently, impressive new sections of the Wall Tunnels have been revealed, for display to the public, in an archeological excavation by the Jerusalem’s Western Wall Foundation and Israel Antiquities Authority. Built around A.D. 20–30, the tunnels consist of…