With a history stretching back over 11,000 years, this city ranks among the oldest continuously inhabited in the world. It ...

The research included fieldwork in Jordan’s rift valley which uncovered hand tools, known as flakes, on the edge of wadis – now-dry river channels which at the time were full of water.

Chief geographical feature, and chief hope of Palestine, is the extraordinary Jordan Valley, a deep “rift” which formed when a block of the earth’s crust dropped several thousand feet.

For this latest research, the team conducted fieldwork in the Jordan Rift Valley where they uncovered hand tools, known as 'flakes', on the edge of wadis -- now dry river channels which ...

The scientists, working with colleagues around the world, say it proves the Homo sapiens navigated their way along the river channels through the Jordan Rift Valley on their way from Africa for ...

But now researchers have uncovered evidence that the so-called northern route — a traverse that took Homo sapiens from the Sinai Peninsula into the Jordan Rift Valley — might have been a particularly ...

Settlement at Tel Tsaf, near the Jordan River and the modern state of ... Rosenberg said the Great African Rift Valley, which stretches from Syria to Africa, was a “highway” for ancient ...

Ancient hand tools found in Jordan’s rift valley suggest a migration route following now dried-up rivers. Dr Mahmoud Abass of Shantou University (left), Professor Paul Carling of University of ...

One of two flakes, or hand tools, seen from three different angles, discovered in the Jordan Rift Valley. The flakes helped scientists date human migration. An international team of scientists has ...