Dressed head to toe in white, hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam Church to sing hymns in the ancient language Ge’ez, to pray, and to stand ...

Was Pope Leo just sharing the gospel or overdoing his critique? Are Trump’s appeals for prayer during wartime justified or an ...

Sinai rock shelter preserves 10,000 years of drawings, tools, and inscriptions, showing repeated human return to one desert ...

Since any public school student is allowed to engage in silent prayer at any time of the school day or read their Bible ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

History remembers the broad strokes of ancient warfare. We’ll never forget things like gunpowder, the phalanx, and war ...

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

The theft shocked the art world and caused a diplomatic incident, with incensed Romanian officials breathing down the neck of ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Legend has it that the miraculous Tupichevskaya Icon of the Mother of God was revealed in the early 17th century to Konstantin Matskevich, a local Orthodox nobleman, in a forest.