The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual joint meeting mixed scholars’ research in Biblical and religious studies with sessions on such hot-button issues as ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

For thousands of years, the pomegranate has been an important food and medicine not only in Greece, but also in many other ...

In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, called palimpsest, involves carefully scraping off the original writing to make ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

KAZAN: Dr Mohammed bin Said al Maamari, Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, met on Sunday with Sheikh Kamil Samigullin, Mufti of the Republic ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in ...

PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray fall afternoon earlier this month, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that ...

MIT researchers have identified the methods behind the remarkable longevity of Roman concrete, confirming self-healing properties and a unique hot-mixing process through studies at a preserved ...

The presentation in the Italian capital last Friday, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, of a marble head more than twenty-five hundred years old, has revealed an unexpected ...