Muneer Elbaz remembers the joy of visiting the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza with his family, praying at a site where people ...

When Israel recognised the Republic of Somaliland in December 2025, it reshaped diplomatic conversations across the Horn of Africa. For Greece, however, the case for engaging Somaliland is not simply ...

Ancient 5,500-year-old workshop 'confirms key part of the Bible' ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

The collection, hidden in a flowerpot on the suspect's balcony, included coins from the Hasmonean, Herodian, and Roman periods, the IAA said. Approximately 450 ancient and counterfeit coins were ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. While research on women and children has flourished in recent decades, older ...

Residents of Sebastia say heritage project is pretext for massive land grab and expansion of Jewish settlements The Byzantine-era church lies half hidden in the shade. Roman columns rise from among ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, visitors can walk the ancient Pilgrims’ Road — a historic path dating back to the time of Jesus. Known to archaeologists as the stepped street, Pilgrims’ Road is a ...

Israel is beginning a land registration process in the occupied West Bank that critics say can shift large areas into state control.

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought The first recorded venereal ...

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