Borders are more than just lines on a map,they’re the product of centuries of history, conflict, and political evolution.

If you have been around any Greeks, you may have seen an old Greek woman dressed in black seem to spit toward a younger family member three times. “Ftou, ftou, ftou!” Don’t worry, it is not actual ...

On Sunday, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to Israel. Now, travellers are looking at the map of the wider ...

Three Spanish Muslims set off from Andalusia for Mecca on horseback seven months ago, traversing Europe and the Alps in a ...

The haftarah is the prophetic reading for the week. It is usually the “ugly cousin” of the Scripture readings. In many Reform ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

Such is the silence that surrounds the mass displacement of Jews from the Arab world in the middle of the 20th century — a ...

A new study is piecing together the life and afterlife of the Xiaohe culture, an ancient Chinese civilization.

For years, we have been safe because we had this hairy-chested friend, even if not in our own neighbourhood, that others were ...

The Northern Saints Trails that run from Northumberland to County Durham are full of 'wondrous' sights and 'medieval magic' ...

In Xianyang, China, on the banks of the Weihe River, the remains of ancient homes have been unearthed for the first time in thousands of years. During recent excavations at the Xiejiahe village site, ...