The discovery paints a picture of Rome’s extensive influence, stretching from Italy to the Middle East ... where Biblical history and Roman governance collide, marks how ancient geography ...

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 ...

New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof. Jodi Magness; its findings could rewrite history books ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Israel launched its full-scale offensive in Lebanon in September, many fled to the Mediterranean island.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

An exhibition titled Il Viaggio (En Route) commissioned by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana features works by global artists as well as Indian craftspersons.