The Middle East’s First Natural History Museum to Open in Israel The region is finally getting its first dedicated natural history museum with the opening of the Steinhardt Museum in Tel Aviv. By Alanna Martinez
UNESCO Adds Caves With World’s Oldest Known Art to Heritage List The art of Swabian Jura's caves has helped shift scientists' previous understandings of prehistoric culture. By Alanna Martinez
Before Vesuvius, Prehistoric Man May Have Drawn the First Volcano in a French Cave A series of mysterious, previously unidentified, “spray shaped designs” in France may have been identified by scientists as the earliest known imagery of volcanic activity. By Vida Weisblum