These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the Jewish holidays during the darkest of times ...

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

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.

In the second line of the Hebrew Bible, before light, before land, before anything with a respectable shape, the world is ...

Amsterdam delivers the goods when it comes to memorable experiences and attractions. With canals weaving through the city, ...

Abraham Adhanom was wrapping up his 14th year of teaching two African language courses when the dean of humanities notified ...

In North Texas, something powerful and hopeful is beginning to take shape. Members of the Jewish and Hindu communities—two ...

New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...

Highway 1 cuts across Israel from west to east, from the Mediterranean Sea to the edge of the Dead Sea, and then into the ...

It was a prayer book from Ernakulam, in Kerala. Inside it, a handwritten register of births from the Malabari Jewish ...