For centuries the Trojan War was dismissed as myth, yet Hittite tablets and archaeological evidence suggest a far more complex reality. This episode explores how a powerful Anatolian empire may have ...

Huckabee's comments drew swift condemnation from across the region, with U.S. allies expressing discomfort with his remarks.

Some scholars however has questioned the wording used in the new labels in the Ancient Levant and Egyptian galleries ...

Netanyahu has been repeatedly addressing the Iranians, reminding them of their ancient ties with the Jews and encouraging them to overthrow the Shia theocracy.

With major military operations halted, Palestinians are gaining a clearer picture of the heritage destruction in Gaza ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

This Shabbat is the confluence of three components of our calendar: the aftermath of Purim, Parashat Ki Tissa, and Shabbat ...

Ramesses II, often called Ramesses the Great, was one of the most powerful and famous rulers of ancient Egypt. He ruled for ...

Egypt occupies the northeast corner of Africa with its northern border the Mediterranean Sea. Its population exceeds 100 ...

Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite records?