Anthropological analysis of the skeleton confirmed that the individual was an adult female, aged between 25 and 30 at the time of death. Intriguingly, the woman was buried with a number of animal ...

If there's room to wiggle the thumb, then it's a female; if it's a tight fit, it's the skeleton of a man DNA samples may be taken from any existing hair tissue. As well as positively identifying ...

But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had practiced religious bodily punishment was female. Excavations of a series of crypts at the Byzantine monastery at Khirbat el ...