The marble slab dates back between 300 and 800 CE. It's also the only complete example of its kind from antiquity.

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 biblical portion Vayyeshev is the first of four portions that deal with Jacob’s son Joseph. It begins in Genesis 37:1 and ...

They gave to Jacob all the alien gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth that was near Shechem” (Gen. 35:1-4). What a strange ...

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 ...

Minister Natan Sharansky wants the foreign ministry to publicize photos of the desecrated site, which is in the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nablus, the biblical Shechem. "If we would have ...

The IAF on Tuesday struck a terror cell east of the city of Shechem (Nablus), thwarting a terror attack. Security sources said that the terrorists, who had planned to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago and was discovered at the site of Athribis, located about 125 miles (200 ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

The director of the Biblical epic "Mary," coming to Netflix this Christmas season, says he hopes audiences will feel "closer" to the famous mother of Jesus after watching his retelling of the ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an "exceptional" ancient Celtic burial ground and an early farming settlement from the Stone Age in the Czech Republic, among other finds. The Archaeological Center ...