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

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

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

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

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

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples.

Archaeologists in Egypt have just uncovered the tomb of an ancient pharaoh for the first time since the discovery of King Tut ...

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.

People’s blood group is all about the presence ... Despite the opportunities it offers, the red cell blood group systems of ancient human populations remain largely a mystery.

He created a 300-person Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant choir and orchestra. Then he took a break.