Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

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As the early morning mist clears with the sunrise, a unique group of international practitioners of the ancient art of Mamluk ...

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A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of international researchers, led by the University of Göttingen, has studied how the f ...

This discovery provides new insights into human settlement on the island 4,000 years ago and underscores its cultural, commercial, and social importance in the ancient Arabian Gulf region.