Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

“Wow” — shevach in Hebrew, or praiseworthiness — is about God’s awesomeness. Rabbi Spodek said he spends a minute or two ...

The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle ...

They say, “just look at all of the ... were from ancestry other than Israelites and then became Israelites through immigration did not matter to anyone in the ancient world.

The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

Popular depictions of Jesus' tomb often show a small, single-chamber burial site—but historical evidence suggests something very different. Scholars argue that first-century rock-cut tombs were ...

After Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, did he “Descend into Hell ... author of “The Formation of Hell.” The ancient Hebrews focused on the afterlife following their Babylonian captivity ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...

In “The Dazzling Paget Sisters,” Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at ...

From the blog of Bryan Schwartz at The Times of Israel ...

However, when the Israelites and Judeans were making wine, they were part of what should be known as the Ancient World ... I admire small countries like Taiwan and Singapore surrounded by ...