A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the oldest evidence of smelted lead on record in the Levant, a new study finds.

Evidence for trade in ancient Greece comes partly from archaeological discoveries of foreign goods in Greece and of Greek goods in foreign lands. Our discussion of trade in ancient Greece begins in ...

Silver first reached the Levant in the 4th millennium BCE, used for figurines and jewelry. Only in the Bronze Age, in the 3rd millennium BCE, were pieces of silver used as currency, Eshel said.

Archaeologist and art historian Dr. Lucia Cerullo shares her journey from Elamite epigraphy to Persian-period temples in the Southern Levant — and why it’s the everyday people she wishes she could ...