President-elect Donald Trump supports the idea of school prayer. The history behind the writing of the Bible suggests we ...

The way ancient Greeks chose their names is a fascinating story that reveals a lot about their ideals, beliefs and familial ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

The brief yet famous book On the Incarnation —which unpacks the person and work of Christ—was written 1,700 years ago by ...

Of all the mysteries of Ancient Greece, the Orphic Mysteries based on the myth of Orpheus are the most intriguing.

Yet the meaning of the handwriting—like the Book of Daniel as a whole—is multilayered and mysterious, full of puns, wordplays ...

Two books explore the scandals and controversies around the acquisition of antiquities by curators and collectors.

The enigmatic Book of Enoch has captivated scholars and laypeople alike for millennia. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking ...

Historical writings, including hieroglyphics, suggest that such bricks were molded using mud from the Tigris River. Taking a ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient relic that offers a vivid snapshot of life nearly ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

The Babylonian artefact - called the Imago Mundi - had a circular diagram in which there was a writing system which used wedge ... after a deeper analysis it was found that the ancient language had ...