Newly founded Arab states like Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and others, rejected any Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland and launched war after war. The Arab leadership also created what ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

Two women embrace next to a banner with a photo of Ran Gvili in Tel Aviv, 26 January, 2026 ...

Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

A line of interfaith leaders protest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, Jan. 23, 2026.

Archeologists Found 3,000-Year-Old Structure Mentioned in the Bible ...

Israel is marking the end of a painful chapter after the return of the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...

The recovery of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili’s body paves the way for the next stage of the Gaza cease-fire plan, though the path forward is unclear.

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...