History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...
Newly founded Arab states like Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and others, rejected any Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland and launched war after war. The Arab leadership also created what ...
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Israel’s settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month
Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once ...
The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...
The Times of Israel on MSN
Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem
New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...
It's Blossom on MSN
Archeologists Found 3,000-Year-Old Structure Mentioned in the Bible
Archeologists Found 3,000-Year-Old Structure Mentioned in the Bible ...
Cris Rogers is a vicar in East London (at All Hallows, Bow), and a friend online. He has recently been posting interesting ...
The Conversation on MSN
Curious Kids: in ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about?
In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and ...
New Scientist on MSN
Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...
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