Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial sites. Dated to 100,000 years ago, the site may contain a mix of both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Finding ritual grave goods buried alongside skeletons could rewrite our knowledge of ancient burial. What could be the world’s oldest human burial site—discovered in a cave in central Israel—shows that funerary ritual has been alive and well for at least 100,000 years. This is now considered one of the world’s oldest known burial sites—if not the oldest—and shows how Homo behavior merged at the location, culminating in burial rituals.