The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day ...

Long before Romans or Greeks, ancient seafarers from the Near East founded ports across Spain and the wider Mediterranean. With their own records lost and history written by rivals, this episode ...

On a family walk through one of Israel’s most storied archaeological sites, a 3-year-old girl made an astonishing discovery.

Does the Biblical story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt appear in Greek mythology? This article examines some possibilities.

Moses never veers from this line. Contrary to popular belief, he never tells Pharaoh, “let my people go,” full stop, but ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

In this two-part article, the author presents an overview of what various ancient textual artifacts “remember” about the earliest loan closings ...

What is it about human physiology that leads us to use pillows, and does anyone know when we first came up with the idea?

From Niagara Falls to the Redwood Forests, state parks preserve many of the nation’s iconic landscapes and historic treasures ...

Aneesh* read Kunju Kaaryangalude Odeythampuran, the Malayalam translation of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, when he ...

John Piper’s Minnesota minions are apparently rejoicing in answered prayers tonight as yet another one of their neighbors has ...

In a departure from their usual joint adventures, Holmes and Watson embark on an unusual trip to an ancient turquoise mine in the Sinai Desert, where the famous sleuth uncovers one of the greatest ...