Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

For most visitors, the highlight of a City of David visit is Hezekiah's Tunnel. The tunnel was ancient Jerusalem's primary source of water, according to the Bible. Today, you can traverse this ...

The shop sells books about Palestinian history, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Jerusalem, as well as contemporary Palestinian fiction, art books, Palestinian cookbooks, reprints of historical maps ...

Since Israel invaded Gaza in 2023, far-right settlers have set their sights on the Strip—and they have no intention of ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Representation of the old Golden Gate and ancient city of Jerusalem with Second Temple. Israel in the time of Christ. a woman climbs steps towards the dome of the rock, jerusalem a woman climbs steps ...

An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of historical knowledge about asceticism in the Byzantine era. A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the ...

Shutterstock The Mysterious Giants of the Kansas Plains Monument Rocks is one of the most interesting natural formations in ...

I’ve been holding my breath since 7 October 2023. Tonight, in the back of a taxi in Jerusalem, I finally exhale – a flood of ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...