government calls relics 'inalienable religious and cultural heritage' and threatens legal action against auction house.

Tanya Sirakovich, chief curator of Fine Arts at the Israel Museum, envisions the institution as a living space where past and ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

It’s also a symbol, a cultural phenomenon ... Justinian wanted his church to be larger and more ornate than Jerusalem’s Temple of Solomon, the legendary resting place of the Ark of the ...

Some cities don’t just exist in the present — they straddle the past and breathe history into every stone, building, and ...

After 1100 years, the amphora's mouth was opened, and what's inside will be clear after the analysis process. Opening it was ...

President Donald Trump’s crusade against diversity has attacked nearly everything touching on race, from freezing federal investigations of civil rights violations to scrubbing Harriet Tubman from a ...

“The native negroid race had never developed either its trade or any industry worthy of mention, and owed their cultural position ... Hebrew Bible as an ally of Jerusalem’s King Hezekiah.

Jews arrived in Morocco after the Siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 ... and where the deliberate destruction of priceless cultural artifacts sometimes happens because it’s Wednesday.

Visit the Glen Echo Park Aquarium to learn about aquatic life, or try your hand at creating art in the pottery and ...

leaving behind artifacts that archaeologists still study today. Later, European settlers were equally awed by this unusual landscape, with some comparing it to the ancient city of Jerusalem – hence ...