[That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St Bartholomew – the alms which King Alfred had vowed to send there when they besieged the raiding ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

A colloquium entitled “Palestinian history between past and present,” scheduled to take place on Friday, March 6, at the CUNY ...

That is why this moment feels so paradoxical and precisely why these truly are the best of times and the worst of times. Or ...

In December, the Open University told UK Lawyers for Israel it would stop using the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in teaching ...

A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Ancient Greek geographer Pausanias wrote that Lycosura in Arcadia is the oldest city in the world and "the first that the sun ...

Judaism once had a universalist vision, long before Christianity emerged as a distinct religion. What happened ...

The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would ...