After many hours of ritual chanting and praying, the priests of Baal fail in their efforts but Elijah’s God blasts the wood to bits with fire. Elijah then calls on the Israelites to slaughter ...

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Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Jewish ritual bath discovered near Rome is the 'oldest discovery of its kind in the world' Rare mammoth tusk found on West Texas ranch Most ancient Europeans had dark skin, eyes and hair up until ...