What was G-d thinking? Choosing the Jews on the second of Sivan and offering the Torah to the Moabites on the third of Sivan? And not just the Moabites, but the Hittites, Canaanites, Egyptians, etc.

Long before the Hittite Empire rose to challenge Egypt and Assyria, the ancient plateau of Anatolia belonged to a forgotten ...

Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has presented an artificial ...

The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia. In ...

The Hittites were one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling a vast empire that competed with Egypt, Assyria, ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

A new exhibition is presenting the history of the Lebanese archaeological site of Byblos to European audiences in Paris, ...

A 3,500-year-old figurine known as the “Genç Fırtına Tanrısı” (“Young Storm God”) discovered by chance and recently added to a museum collection, has gone on public display for the first time at the ...

With all the recent talk of wiping out the entire civilization of Iran. It’s a good time to remember that it wouldn’t be the first time a whole civilization was wiped out. Here are 12 examples, plus ...

Between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C., the Minoan civilization flourished on Crete and nearby islands, building palaces decorated with frescoes, engaging in athletic activities such as bull leaping, and ...