Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

Amid the vast destruction of the war, a small group of determined individuals fought to save Gaza's archaeological heritage.

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

Many scholars today argue that the Israelites never really conquered Canaan. What does the evidence really show?

For the next several months, some of the oldest religious texts in history will be on display in D.C. at the Museum of the Bible.

Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden ...

The world is filled with sunken cities. One study has counted 2,600 in 19 countries – victims of the Great Flood myth that permeates various ancient cultures from the Sumerians to the Bible – or ...

On March 20, 2003, a U.S.-led coalition began its invasion of Iraq. Approximately one month later, on April 10, 2003, U.S.

Just months after Abbas’ advisor invented a 6,000-year-old Palestinian people, the mayor of Jericho has now invented a 10,000 ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

Sudanese are slowly returning and breathing new life into the city - but vital parts of its heritage may be lost forever ...