The Greek word for Palestine, Palaistinē (Παλαιστίνη), is derived from the Hebrew phrase ʾEretz Yisrael (אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל), ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), ...

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public architecture from Rome's powerful rival city.

Skeletons are neighbors for some Palestinians in Gaza who found nowhere else but cemeteries to shelter from the war.

NEW YORK, NY – On September 27 at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed two symbolic maps. In his right hand, a map of the Middle East ...

How did the Holy Roman Empire come into being? This video traces its origins from the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the rise of Charlemagne and the crowning of Otto I in 962. We explore how ...

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 60th anniversary of the landmark Vatican document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s ...

The ancient Assyrians couldn’t exactly take to the phones like the IRS, making incessant calls demanding that loyal subjects of the kingdom pay their taxes by the deadline, but they did have vaguely ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. Those ...

Israel has been massing troops and tanks on the border with Gaza after the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched a deadly ...