The word sycophant has fascinating roots that stem from the ancient Greek fig market. Greek has influenced modern language in ...

There is a common perception that science is a modern invention with roots in the ancient Greek world. While the Greeks ...

Perhaps there is a sense of randomness. After all, Moses became a hero and defender of his people for using G-d’s name to ...

Ancient artefacts from Gaza – amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more – tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...

On June 7, 1967, the Jewish people knew that they had witnessed a miracle. On that day, the ancient walled city of Jerusalem, ...

As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are ...

Its name comes from the ancient Greek word for green, “smaragdus ... The first known emerald mines were in Egypt, dating from at least 330 BC into the 1700s. Cleopatra was known to have a passion for ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian fortress in Sinai with 500 trees, deep moats, paved roads, and housing—dating back over 2,000 years to the Ptolemaic period.

A huge false door made out of pink granite uncovered the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian prince dating back over 4,000 years, ...