Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Archaeologists Unearth Thousands of Animal Bones Inside Mysterious Prehistoric Stone Structures, Believe They Were Used for ...

"Spaghetti didn't originate in Italy. It was introduced to the country by Arab traders in the 8th century. The Italians ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Trump’s January 25th statement on relocating 1.5 million Gazans to Egypt and Jordan may be the smartest chess move in this ...

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 ...

With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural production. Sunni and Alawite Muslims, Orthodox and Catholic Christians—diverse ...

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

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

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

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

He was a warrior so large that his name is now a byword for immense size. But just how big was Goliath the biblical giant in ...