The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

One of the scrolls discovered now antedates the Dead Sea scrolls by about 70 years. The phylactery (tefillin) scroll contains the first 16 verses of Chapter 13 of the biblical Book of Exodus.

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On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1946-47, provide us with the clearest evidence that the Bible we know today has remained true and unchanged in its form for almost 2000 years. Given this, it is ...

Lost manuscripts written by the famous Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga were discovered in the Netherlands. The ...

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Archaeologists have discovered a mask mold believed to depict Medusa at Valley of the Temples Archaeological Park in in Sicily, Italy. The park is open to visitors on weekdays.

These particular corpses had been “intensively manipulated” to extract all tissues and make use of “their caloric ...

A dead body was discovered late Friday morning at an old quarry off Highway 3 between Bremerton and Gorst, behind the SERVPRO business. The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office had crews at the scene ...

Artificial intelligence is even peering through the most impenetrable of artifacts: ancient, charred scrolls that are too delicate to be unfurled. Scholars have deciphered some of the first words ...