Sebastian Fink from the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

An unfortunate trend today is the mixing of Kiswahili and English, especially among young people, even when Kiswahili alone would suffice for effective communication.

From Ancient Power to Global Leader. Explore India's historical economic dominance, decline under colonialism, and its ...

Last Friday, following the screening of No Other Land in San Diego, I discussed the film with a Jewish attendee who drew a ...

The merkavah is, within the realm of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish thought, a vehicle that transports the Divine throne or ...

THE ROOT CAUSE by Alex Rose “I had faith in Israel before it was established. I have faith in it now. I believe it has a ...

"Everybody" runs through April 19 at Illinois State University's Center for the Performing Arts. Read John D. Poling's review here: ...

Universities are a core pillar of civil society. Law firms are not. Observers have been waiting to see what would come of an ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... and Syriac (a Semitic language close to Arabic)—was ...

When the Assyrian Empire came along, Gaza went through the same turmoil as Israel and Judah and was under the same threat.

Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example, originated in about 3200 B.C., while Sumerian cuneiform seems to be from about the same ...