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Baal was one of the most feared and powerful gods of the ancient Near East — a storm god associated with thunder, kingship, ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Israel has unearthed a 5,500-year-old factory, unraveling a long-standing biblical mystery. This find provides new insights into ancient manufacturing practices ...

From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some of the Bible's best-known stories.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand. But ...

As they brushed the last layer of dirt from a small section of mosaic on the synagogue floor, the archaeologists were momentarily baffled by the odd image beginning to emerge. "Then we realized we ...