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 ...

On Thursday, Israeli forces shot two Palestinians, including a child, and injured dozens more in the town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. East of the city, ...

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first believed to be a cellar, but was determined to be a tomb after the discovery ...

The Mediterranean is home to a rich tapestry of history, with ancient ruins scattered across its islands and coastal regions.

In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

Traveling the world Over the next 30 years, Paul traveled some 10,000 miles across the Roman Empire, preaching in cities that were brimming with the poorest people, desperate to hear a message of ...

(241216) -- NABLUS, Dec. 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People mourn Palestinian teenager Mohammad Abu Kishk killed by Israeli army gunfire, during his funeral in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on Dec.

WEST BANK, Dec 16 — Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant relative, Umm al-Abed is now passing on the secrets of the practice newly designated by Unesco as ...

(241212) -- NABLUS, Dec. 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People carry the body of Jihad Abu Salim during his funeral in Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Dec. 12, 2024. On Thursday in ...

A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday morning a Palestinian house on the outskirts of Burin town, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. According to local sources, a group of ...