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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
Oct 19, 2016... An excavated area at Tel Megiddo from 2014 shows a stone-paved floor that has fire-blackened sediment. The wall consists of collapsed red and yellowish mud bric ... Read more
Jul 26, 2017... New finds in the City of David confirm the veracity of the biblical account of the Babylonian capture and conquest of First Temple period Jerusalem. The event i ... Read more
Nov 30, 2010... Fabled as a site of biblical battles and spectacular palaces, Tel Megiddo today is a dusty mound overlooking Israel’s Jezreel valley. It is also host to one of ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/pigs-in-israel-originated-in-europe-researchers-say/
Nov 04, 2013...
JERUSALEM — Israel may not be the most obvious place to study pigs, given that religious strictures in both Judaism and Islam forbid their consumption.
But ... Read more
Jun 07, 2018...
Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto, Head of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s D-REAMS Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory (courtesy)
Archaeologists’ evidence of Israelite ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/300-000-year-old-hearth-found/
Jan 27, 2014... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 27, 2014—Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it ... Read more
Jul 29, 2013...
A hungry dinosaur at the Clore Garden of Science, Weizmann Institute of Science. Photo by Daniel Chechik
The dinosaur exhibition at the Weizmann Institute ... Read more
Dec 28, 2017...
Manot Cave in northern Israel.
Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric tools and artwork from western Europe owe their existence to an even earlier ... Read more
Jun 03, 2020... A revolutionary radiocarbon-dating technique can now securely pinpoint when monumental structures in Jerusalem’s Old City — including the famed Wilson’s Arch — ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/ancient-hominins-used-fire-to-make-stone-tools/
Oct 05, 2020... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—October 5, 2020—Our ancestors not only knew how to use fire, they also developed sophisticated technologies for making tools. Researchers at the ... Read more
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