Nestled in the Qalamoun mountains, about 56 kilometers northeast of Damascus, the historic Syrian town of Maaloula is one of the ...

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Archaeologists at Mleiha open a 20-pound jar containing 409 silver coins, revealing Hellenistic-Arab ambition and power.

Residents of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra are slowly resuming daily life after a deadly shooting on Saturday left US ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

Hang a stocking for Jesus. Fill it with notes and prayer intentions during Advent. You can pray for those intentions in the ...

We already know that everything that was created with man, was worthy of existing - except for the foreskin, as the Torah ...

Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included receiving a post-doc in ...

Editor Gerald Owen pushed me to be fair in assessing ideas I disagreed with. He made me a better writer and a better person ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

It was watched by 250 supporters, from pensioners to bobble-hatted students, waving placards bearing the heart-tugging slogan ...