Ancient Near East
The most-often mentioned animal in the Bible.
An inscription dating back 4,400 years, likely in a script related to Hebrew.
AI makes sense of damaged manuscripts.
And the geopolitics of the Bronze Age Levant.
A Civil War chaplain and a forged statue of a Near Eastern goddess.
“Ten measures of beauty were given to the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem.”
They were spectators, but there’s little evidence they were fighters.
The Tanakh of the Land of Israel.
The earliest records of the Diaspora show Jews keeping the memory of their homeland alive.
The Drought That May Have Led to the Fall of a Jewish Kingdom in Arabia, and Paved the Way for Islam
The stalagmites’ tale.
Hagai Ben Yehuda’s bakery uses rare, ancient varieties of wheat he believes date back to biblical times.
And its journeys from the Arabian Peninsula to the Mediterranean.
The southern Aegean port city was once home to a large Jewish community.