In his Biographies of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East, Chaldean Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael Sako noted that the tomb ...

A massive Assyrian winged bull, the largest ever found, was unearthed in Iraq, marking a milestone in Mesopotamian ...

As the Romantic movement reached its crescendo across Europe in the early nineteenth century, few collaborations seemed as unlikely – and as fruitful – as that between Lord Byron, the scion of Eng ...

The belief that tomorrow can be better and the duty to help make it so is Judaism’s gift to the world and our legacy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Papyrus disintegrates, parchment and paper burn, but clay tablets can survive fire — even the almighty ...

This week the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a controversial video that lionizes the work of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which it suggests is aimed at delivering divine ...

God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, telling him to speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When you come into the land that I give you, the land must have a period of rest, a Sabbath for God. For six ...

The relief, discovered in the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal, is among the most significant finds in recent years, offering new insights into the religious iconography and political symbolism of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

Every archaeologist remembers the first time they came to a layer of blackened dirt while excavating. For me it was at Tel Halif, in southern Israel. I was crouching in a hole; the dig’s director ...