'Philistine' beer made from 3,000-year-old strain found at Gath comes out fruity and tangy while mead, likely closer to its atavistic inspiration, begets a champagne-cider quaffer

Using pottery sherds from four Holy Land sites, interdisciplinary team isolates and revitalizes six strains of ancient yeast to create alcoholic beverages of yore

Discovered in a Moshav Ramot garden, once-indecipherable road marker near Sea of Galilee offers proof of the brief 3rd-century rule of Maximinus Thrax