Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Sunday lectionary reading for the Third Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 6.17–26, this gospel's version of the ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Hezbollah was established after a committee consisting of 9 representatives of the Islamic forces agreed to adopt Imam Khomeini’s orientation to ...

The Gospel readings from The Sermon on the Plain are provocative and potent – calling on us to think differently about love, ...

The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...

Sepphoris: The Forgotten Capital Just a stone's throw from Nazareth, the humble town where Jesus grew up, lies Sepphoris. In ...