We humans surprise ourselves. The earliest boomerang was made 40,000 years ago. In Poland. The agricultural revolution was eagerly embraced. Except when it wasn't. Moses wasn't the first to seek his god on a mountain, and the longest papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert – wait 'til you hear what it says. Here are those stories and many more from the world of archaeology in 2025!For PaleoJudaica posts on the Punic lack of Levantine ancestry. see here, here, and here; on the fox-footprint find at el-Araj, see here; on the tax-fraud trial papyrus, see here, here, and here; and on the late notice from the Assyrian taxman excavated in Jerusalem, see here; and on the megalithic "Wheel of Ghosts" at Rujm el-Hiri, see here.
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