Ancient Judean Jar Handles Prove the Earth's Magnetic Field Won't Kill Us All
Using clearly dated Judahite pottery jars, archaeologists and geophysicists show the magnetic field has fluctuated violently before without ending life on the planet.
Using clearly dated Judahite pottery jars, archaeologists and geophysicists show the magnetic field has fluctuated violently before without ending life on the planet.
Shattered pottery jars over 2,000 years old and abandoned 20th-century pickaxes indicate that once, scrolls had been there. All that's left is one blank parchment.
And why were the biblical peoples so terrified of migrant shepherds that they described them as raw-meat eating, ancestor-abusing giants? ■ Part 1
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Bone fragment, coal chip and a seed dating to 3000 B.C.E., 1,000 years later than expected, reignite academic brawl.
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