To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to ...

The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

Some old Scandinavian writings trace kings back to Christ’s birth, once dismissed as mere tales—but perhaps there’s truth in ...

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The gate that goes nowhere is somehow a monument to the Napoleonic genius of the man who enabled the emancipation of the Jews.

Katz said operation “Iron Wall” in the Jenin refugee camp ... at least 851 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, including ...

Watch the trailer for The Age of Disclosure, the documentary directed and produced by Dan Farah that just got a prime opening weekend slot at SXSW.This comes on the heels of bi-partisan ...

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SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal fragments previously thought to be part of a vessel are actually pieces of an Iron Age helmet, according to a BBC News report. Conservator Fleur Shearman of the British ...

The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges tribe in Dorset. The researchers discovered a continuous line of descent of mtDNA ...

(Yes, the word choice was strange.) “The golden age of America,” he declared, “begins right now.” Perhaps it would be more aptly called a Gilded Age. Trump was joined in the Capitol ...

THE site of a prehistoric settlement near Scarborough has been damaged by repeated illegal off-roading, according to archaeologists. A spokesperson for North York Moors National Park Authority ...