The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

Commissioned in 1753 by the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, As’ad Pasha al-Azem, this sprawling caravanserai was designed to be ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

When perusing the canned goods at the grocery store, you may notice that chickpeas and garbanzo beans look identical. Here's ...

With the clear Biblical, Jewish precedence for both Hummus and Za`atar in ancient Israelite cuisine — vastly predating the ...

There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th century – an ancient and historic community ... whose families never left the Levant. Of these, the Jews of Aleppo and Qamishli ...

AMMAN – The Levant represented the natural outlet for ancient Egypt which exercised ... interconnection exchanging products, ideas, and people from the Pre- and Early Dynastic Periods to the ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov explained.

American and other Western servicemen in Afghanistan claim they had witnessed, if not fought and killed, actual giants hiding ...

A Semitic monotheistic people are enslaved and brutally mistreated in ancient Egypt ... in parts of the Levant and Mesopotamia are associated with mobile pastoralist groups.