CE, Christian elites built numerous private churches, while Jewish donors appeared to pool their resources in a communal synagogue The post In early Christian Holy Land, private churches rose as acts ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

Brian Skiba’s Kentucky-shot Western also features Heather Graham and Nicolas Cage among good guys fighting many baddies to ...

They’re dire wolf pups, back from extinction after some 12,000 years. Dire wolves thrived during the Pleistocene Epoch, when ...

Nestled in Florida’s panhandle, where the state’s familiar flatness gives way to surprising elevation, Torreya State Park in ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human ...

Here are a dozen fun facts that you may not have known about the little book at the heart of the Passover Seder.

With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

The sequenced individuals date to the middle pastoral period, about 7,000 years ago. This is remarkable preservation; most ancient African ... as has been initiated for modern livestock genomes ...

Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the area was unrecognizable, transformed into a lush savannah by an unusually wet interval called the African Humid Period ... modern humans and 117 ancient ...