Archaeologists recently uncovered rare artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, revealing a glimpse ...

The study presents an early Christian enclave and an African family, most likely, that called the Negev desert home.

The artifacts were buried in the graves of a young woman and child, who may have converted to Christianity in Africa before traveling to the region, researchers say ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Now a pioneering paleoanthropologist at ...

Ebony and bone pendants carved in the likeness of African men and women have been documented in three sixth–seventh-century ...

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Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

Rare African-style figurines dating back 1,500 years were discovered in ancient Christian tombs in Israel’s Negev desert.

Archaeologists in Israel have found two tiny African figurines ... alabaster jars and five carved figurines. The ebony figurines are quite rare, while the bone figurines are more common for ...

During excavations on the grounds of an Israeli Air Force base in the Negev Desert, archaeologists came across several tombs ...

The astounding discovery of bone tools associated with thousands of stone tools and animal fossils started when torrents carved through Olduvai Gorge during the 2010 rainy season, exposing buried ...

A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...