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 ...

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 ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

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

An intact tomb dating back 3,300 years has been discovered on a beach in Israel, containing more than 140 offerings related ...

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

The Open University has been forced to back down on claims the Virgin Mary was born in “ancient Palestine” following a legal complaint.

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