Pro-Palestinian activists have prevented a former Jewish member of the Italian Parliament, who is the son of an Auschwitz ...

Across millennia, animals have stood beside us in war, worship, and daily life. Following Porphyrios, the whale that terrorized Byzantine waters, we trace Alexander’s Boukephalas, Akbar’s famed ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

From Tutankhamun’s treasures to Egypt’s reimagined cultural future, 5,000 years of history come alive at the Grand Egyptian ...

Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people during his first foreign ...

A 2700-year-old Assyrian seal discovered in Jerusalem has revealed a hidden message that’s rewriting what we know about ancient imperial power in Judah.

The study indicates that the tunnels likely channeled water to drive horizontal paddle wheels, which powered millstones used ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

A recently acquired self-portrait by Marc Chagall, a letter from George Washington to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island and more are on display in the museum's new third and fourth floors.