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

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

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

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

Some have proposed that the “Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite” portion is a reference to bedding, and the goal of ...

More from Karina Longworth's "You Must Remember This" series with Hawks, Preminger, Cukor and more, Australian ’80s discovery ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

A joint archaeological mission has discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, in Egypt's Saqqara ...

You must take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves. Each loaf must be made from two-tenths of an ephah of flour. ~ Leviticus ...

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 ...

Light is all around us, essential for one of our primary senses (sight) as well as life on Earth itself. It underpins many ...

In the words of 105-year-old Nakba survivor Hakma Atallah: “Sometimes I close my eyes and try to remember my last night in Al-Swafeer. I imagine myself with my husband and children sitting in front of ...