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Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that early human groups shared similar burial practices, including deliberate ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years. The site, Tinshemet Cave, contains remarkably preserved remains of early ...

Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial ...

A window into early human burials Tinshemet Cave is a dark slash in central Israel’s rolling hills filled with squeaking fruit bats.

Tinshemet Cave is from the Middle Paleolithic era, roughly between 250,000 to 30,000 years ago. Some of the Tinshemet researchers' core findings were published in March in Nature Human Behavior.

Volunteers work in Tinshemet Cave, where archaeologists are excavating one of the world’s oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years, near Shoam, Israel, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP ...