The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
I’ve just received word that Yuval Peleg, an archaeologist with the IAA, was suddenly killed while working in a cave which collapsed.
Peleg and Yitzhak Magen are probably best known for their Qumran dig which suggests that the site which nutty xtians think was a "monastery" was in reality a pottery factory in its last incarnation.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.