Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took place.

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

As we know, Language has been one of the oldest and most influential ways of communication used by humans to connect generations through culture, tradition, and identity. Over time, several new ...

There are moments when an ancient teaching reenters your life with the searing force of revelation. For me, it struck in the ...

In the 16th century, Johannes Goropius Becanus, a Dutch humanist, proposed an outlandish theory that the Garden of Eden was ...

When does Hanukkah start this year? Here's Hanukkah 2025 dates and what to know about the Jewish Festival of Lights.

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A monastery overlooking the Mediterranean will be one of the stops on Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, a country of ...

Malala — Meaning "grief-stricken" or "sad" in Arabic, this is the name of activist Malala Yousafzai, who fights for female education in Pakistan. She became the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize ...

Tell us about your new novel, Conversation with the Sea. It is a break-up song for the world. My response to the present as well as the history from which we have emerged. It is the story of Lukas ...