The added detail of “21st century” is important here—because these add to a corpus of more than 30,000 known Hittite tablets ...

According to excavation directors Dr. Benyamin Storchan and Gil Freid, the Lower Aqueduct was an “impressive engineering ...

While written in Aramaic, several of these words have an apparent Greek origin. Critics in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Less than 100 meters from the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the Ophel Excavation is currently underway in one of the most important locations in all Israel. The joint project by Hebrew University ...

The story of the Israelites in Egypt and the Exodus is, of course, best known from the biblical account—chiefly, the Torah (Pentateuch), the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, ascribed by text and ...

The 10 plagues of Egypt constitute one of the strangest collections of miracles in the Bible. Water turned to blood, legions of frogs, dust turned to lice, boils—nowhere else in the Bible do we see ...

The Hebrew calendar is extremely regulated and accurate. Divine and detailed biblical instructions are given for determining months and precisely pinpointing dates, especially for the holy days. The ...

Nebuchadnezzar ii is one of the most infamous kings of the Bible. He is particularly known for the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e., and for his relationship with the Prophet ...

Nebuchadnezzar ii is among the most eminent kings in history. He ruled over the Babylonian Empire when its territory spanned from the Nile River to the Persian Gulf. During his reign, he oversaw the ...

“I don’t believe in carbon-14 dating at all,” said Egypt’s premier Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on a recent viral Joe Rogan podcast. “And it’s not working in Egypt until today.” The 78-year-old Hawass ...

If everybody’s doing it, that makes it OK. Well, no. But that does make it a cultural universal—the anthropological name for something done, in some form or other, by every human culture around the ...