Church leaders in the Palestinian village of Taybeh allege extremist Israeli settlers lit a fire next to an important church site, as part of escalating attacks.

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...

The priests of the only entirely Christian town in the West Bank issued a joint appeal for an end to “the ongoing and grave ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Technically and aesthetically, they have really nice properties,” Penadés says of the dense hunks, many of them more than 100 ...

It’s not hard to understand the enduring appeal of a Greek island getaway — powdery soft sands, picturesque white and blue ...

Could olive oil’s hidden compounds be the key to a healthier gut? New research uncovers how olive-derived bioactives transform our microbiome and may unlock future therapies for digestive and ...

The curious thing about arriving in Athens is that it doesn’t really matter what time you get there; the impact is always the ...

The Olive tree of Vouves in Crete is still going strong after thousands of years. A recent study has revealed its true age.

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...