Until the current study, cave pearls were neither found in an archaeological context nor used for archaeological research,” the authors stated in the recent Archaeometry report. Such a modest ...

Languages: English, Spanish Researchers have found a "unique" collection of "cave pearls"—some of which contain archaeological artifacts—in an ancient tunnel, a study has reported. Cave pearls ...

The pearls are a type of ‘speleothem’ – mineral deposits that are formed in caves by moving water. Unlike more commonly known speleothems, such as stalactites and stalagmites, cave pearls ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Cave pearls the size of tennis ...

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uncovered rare cave pearls containing man-made objects within an ancient subterranean water system near Jerusalem. Their findings were recently ...

They’re often found in shallow pools of water, and a study recently published in Archaeometry revealed 50 cave pearls were found in an ancient tunnel in the Jerusalem Hills of Israel.

Shot within a field of view of about six inches, these cave pearls found in Boulder Falls were just a taste of what was to come deeper in the cave.

The explorers reported finding waterfalls, snakes, dead animals, stalagmites and cave pearls, but unsurprisingly they did not find any genies or a doorway into hell. The exact age of the Well of ...

dead animals and cave pearls. 'There were snakes, but they won't bother you unless you bother them,' Mohammed al-Kindi, a geology professor at the German University of Technology in Oman ...