Simply made pottery jars, beads, copper jewelry, and stone and mortar hammers were discovered within the cistern alongside the remains. A mass grave of children was discovered within an abandoned water cistern during archaeological excavations at Tel Azekah, according to a recent study published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

InterNations’ 2025 survey suggests Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, and Oman feel especially welcoming to foreign residents, while Kuwait, Norway, and Finland come across as much harder places to socially settle into.

US businesses are adding workers at the weakest pace in 15 years, excluding the onset of the pandemic, new data showed Tuesday, a sign that there was an even deeper chill cutting through the labor market before the Middle East conflict threatened to shake the US economy.