Shechem was one of the great cities of its area in ancient times; its 4000 years of history now lie buried in a ten-acre mound, or "tell," just east of Nablus in Jordan. When it flourished during ...

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text ...

The family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American woman who was killed by Israeli forces during a protest near Shechem (Nablus) in September, plans to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...