The silver Kiddush cup, an object used to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays, evidences medieval Jewish communities in ...

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that's the impression you might get from eyeballing the latest ...

The United Nations estimates that 90% of Syrians live in poverty and the Syrian government has only been able to provide ...

Andrea Stone, professor of English language and literature, is the author of Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century (University Press ... deputy assistant secretary of ...

The Century Initiative, co-founded by Mark Wiseman ... However, when Carney met with the council for the first time on Wednesday, there was a new member — Mark Wiseman. Get Access to iPolitics Read up ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from ... of political and religious identity. A first- to second-century a.d. ceramic roof tile found in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a first day of spring tradition. Rita's is serving up free Italian ice -- better known as water ice in Philadelphia -- to celebrate the start of the season. Everyone ...

TOKYO -- Shohei Ohtani trotted to first base, and fervent boos rained down at Tokyo Dome. It was the seventh inning of Wednesday's eventual 6-3 Dodgers win, and the Cubs had just opted to issue an ...