The Evolution of Writing Practices in Ancient Israel. Yigal Bin-Nun . Currently, the epigraphic data from the region provide ...

Take a world tour of monsters, from vampires in Serbia and giants in Cornwall to festivals of dragons in Bavaria and ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

the people at Gadachrili had not only learned the art of fermentation but were apparently improving, breeding, and harvesting vitis vinifera, the European grape. “They’re working out ...

Any runic inscription is rare. Someone put all this effort into this particular text and you wonder why.” It was all this ...

Archaeologists found thousands of pieces of an ancient Roman painting, which features intricate designs and ancient graffiti.

Human-shaped flint figurines from 7500 B.C. may reveal how a Neolithic death cult sparked the rise of human representation in ...

All that and more underscores the significance of a long-awaited and definitive new biography, out now: “Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet” (Yale University Press) by historian ...