Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "The ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years ...

A team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and its collaborators successfully sequenced the genes of five Bronze Age Canaanite remains found in an archaeological site in the Near ...

WOODBRIDGE, Va., Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For some believers, or non-believers, it's common to have a persistent sense that something lies beneath the surface of scripture. Questions may be ...

Ancient Canaanite ritual artifacts and 5,000-year-old winepress discovered at Tel Megiddo in Israel, the biblical site known as Armageddon from the Book of Revelation.

Urfa, formerly the Mesopotamian city of Edessa, is said to have been the birthplace of Abraham. Though archaeologists now ...

O ath-taking signifies a solemn pledge or appeal to divinity. It has long been a familiar expression of truth, loyalty and ...

This mosaic featuring fish was likely laid down in A.D. 300 in what is now the Israeli town of Lod. Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 In 2017, archaeologist Yonatan Adler ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.