What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient ... Culture in the Bible,” published by Yale University Press in 2018. He also taught Middle East politics and ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third ...

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East ... both the Bible and Israeli ...

New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof.

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

Since Israel invaded Gaza in 2023, far-right settlers have set their sights on the Strip—and they have no intention of ...

Trump’s January 25th statement on relocating 1.5 million Gazans to Egypt and Jordan may be the smartest chess move in this entire 75-year conflict. While both Egypt’s and Jordan’s Embassies issued ...

The 50 chapters in the book touch on the history of the Netherlands' relationships with the orient, particularly the Middle East and North ... illustrated with ancient maps, images, and extracts ...