Sometimes Christians can be quite strange. They pound the pulpit about “Jesus this” and “Jesus that,” but when it fits their ...

Ethiopia is heir to one of the world’s richest cultural tapestries. Ge’ez, Arabic, Oromo, Somali, and dozens of other languages all form part of this mosaic. To elevate one while neglecting the others ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

What should Israel do to slow down approaching chaos? How shall such potentially irremediable circumstances be averted?

Jews and non-Jews who seek to survive this conflict should “choose life”, this means walking after the God of the Jewish ...

This long-forgotten footnote to American history is worth considering both for its historical import and its relevancy to the ...

If you love a baby, you don’t wish for them fame, glory or riches. We just want them to be happy, and be a mensch. A mensch is a high compliment in the Jewish tradition. A mensch is a person of quiet ...

This unlikely choice of packaging was a comment, or so it seemed, on the Fertile Crescent's most underappreciated export to the world: nothing short of the origins of civilization. This story has been ...

The French philologist announced his success on 27 September 1822, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization.

Gaza has never belonged to a single era. She is the child of all generations, a companion of history from its dawn to the ...

Echoes of Knowledge Through Time The story of the oldest libraries begins in places where clay tablets and scrolls carried wisdom across centuries. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh guarded ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...