Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.

Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including 3,000-year-old sarcophagi near the Pyramid of King Teti, the first Pharaoh of the ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

Some Jews were abolitionists. Some were slaveholders. The complicated relationship between Jews and African Americans goes ...

Jews and Jewish tradition have always paid special attention to those who stand with us. Perhaps that’s why a single verse ...

It allowed scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time in over 1,000 years, and it has helped us to better understand ancient Egyptian culture and history. ... The Dead Sea Scrolls is ...

Egypt’s first interactive platform for learning ancient Egyptian language, the “Hieroglyphs Step by Step” website, has recently launched its second development phase, expanding its reach and ...

Many of the burials date later than the other finds at Saqqara, to the era of Greek rule in Egypt following the Late Period, after Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s top generals, founded a ...

While Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely ...

You may also choose a language—Arabic, Modern or Ancient Hebrew, Turkish, Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphs, or Sumerian—although language study is not compulsory. From second year, you may choose to ...