Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

They complained about water and about missing the food of Egypt. How was it possible that the people who had seen the greatest miracles could still complain?” The answer given by the rabbis was ...

Here, Middle East Eye answers some questions you might have ... which is itself derived from the ancient Egyptian language. The original pronunciation was "tshom ni sime", which means garden ...

Why one evangelical Bible scholar thinks the answer might be no. The Bible doesn ... thinks maybe there weren’t any nails. “The word used there, stauroo, just means ‘to hang on a cross ...

The poem by Primo Levi that begins my haggadah echoes the line in Exodus that tells us the Israelites fleeing Egypt were joined ... and hopeful as the Exodus of ancient refugees from slavery ...

This year’s Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers, which will be marked next week, carries a deeper meaning than ever.

The Istanbul gate of the ancient city of Nicaea in İznik ... Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia. The bishop of Rome at the time, Victor, decided to excommunicate those whose ...

Christian Als Richard Freund, an American archaeologist at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut, specializes in Jewish history, modern and ancient ... results of their search for the ...

The festivals of Khoiak are among the best attested from ancient Egypt. They revolve around the myth ... the pillar symbolising the backbone of Osiris (djed is the Egyptian word for 'stability'). The ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, with brightly coloured decorations still clearly visible.