A mysterious turtle-shaped rock sculpture, carved over 35,000 years ago, has been discovered deep within Manot Cave in Galilee, Israel, suggesting that prehistoric humans in the region may have ...

Manot Cave, first unearthed by accident in 2008 during condominium construction near the Israel-Lebanon border, has been a treasure trove for anthropologists. Its rediscovered chambers now hold ...

Israel Hershkovitz & Dr. Omry Barzilai. A rare prehistoric ritual complex has been uncovered in the darkest depths of Manot Cave in Western Galilee, Israel. The complex is enclosed naturally by ...

Construction workers discovered Manot Cave in the mountainous area of Galilee in 2008. Researchers have been excavating the site since 2010; three years later, Israel Hershkovitz, an ...

“Its special location, far from the daily activities near the cave entrance, suggests that it was an object of worship.” Manot Cave was discovered in 2008, a chance find as workers built ...

(Credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority) A large cavern deep in Manot Cave served as a ritual gathering space. A cave in Israel may have once been a ritualistic gathering site for early ...

Researchers have unearthed new information about the ritualistic practices of prehistoric humans in the Levant, offering evidence that Manot Cave was more than just a shelter—it was a site for ...

"Our data from Manot Cave testified to the existence of some initial forms of collective ritual practices already in the Early Upper Paleolithic," the authors wrote. "The existence of a ritual ...

Dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic period, Manot Cave was found accidentally when a bulldozer broke open its roof during construction in 2008. Archaeologists soon swooped in and recovered ...

The discovery of this special chamber in Manot Cave unveils the earliest known evidence for collective ritual practices in the Middle East, say archaeologist Omry Barzilai of the University of ...

The ritual boulder was discovered deep within Manot Cave, in the Galilee region of northern Israel, where Hershkovitz has led excavations since 2010. The cave was discovered by construction ...