Through digitally recreating the muscles of an early human ancestor, research has shed new light on how humans evolved to walk upright.
Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved senators on the Ides of March - March 15 - in 44 BC.
Amid stormy weather, a resident of Lod saw the figurine floating toward her on the waves.
It was carved from volcanic rock sometime between 800-400 BC during the heyday of the Olmec civilization, one of Mexico's earliest complex societies.
The researchers see it as likely that dysentery outbreaks due to Giardia plagued towns throughout the near east in the Iron Age.
The site in question contained artifacts that are approximately 2,000 years old, dating back to the Roman-Byzantine era, according to the IAA.
Researchers have connected a recent excavation with a 16th-century hospital that dealt with plague victims.
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