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Rome born, adopted Telavivi. Reporting @haaretzcom and others on archaeology, history, Mideast and EU politics. Lover of sci-fi, all things past and future.

Joined February 2013
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Elly Schlein is the first woman to lead Italy's Democratic Party, helping it regain lost ground after the 2022 election. Despite her unexpected rise to the top of the left camp, many still refuse to see her as prime minister material | @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/world-news/europ…
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Mega-study of prehistoric Northern Eurasians connects waves of ancient Siberians to Hungarians, Finns and even many Native American cultures | Ariel David haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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Here you can find a very nice article about all this and a little more by @arieldavid1980 from Haaretz.com haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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Carthage and its empire were established by Phoenicians, but new research finds that the archenemies of Rome had little genetic link to their Levantine founders / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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Archaeologists excavating a prehistoric cave in central Israel have uncovered some of the oldest burial grounds in the world, with remains that date back to around 100,000 years ago / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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Archaeologists find evidence of Egyptian army that felled biblical king at Megiddo / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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An international team of geneticists and archaeologists analyzed ancient DNA sampled from hundreds of skeletons in the Russian and Ukrainian steppes to offer an answer on the origins of the Indo-European language family / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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Tools used by hominins in northern Israel show the earliest known evidence of plant processing for consumption, chipping away at the theory that our ancestors relied mainly on meat / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2025…
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A new archaeological discovery is a reminder that ancient Israel sat on both banks of the Jordan River. @arieldavid1980 reports mosaicmagazine.com/picks/his…
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Archaeologists crack puzzle of strange skeleton with bones from seven different people / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2024…
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Fed up with traditional memorials, historians at Sapienza University of Rome are digging through archives to reconstruct the stories of Jewish scholars expelled under Mussolini's 1938 Racial Laws haaretz.com/jewish/2024-11-1…
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Atop Tel Shimron, archaeologists reveal enigmatic monumental "white" structure from Canaanite era and its storage for used religious artifacts, and animal bones / @arieldavid1980 haaretz.com/archaeology/2024…
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