The events in Shushan were never merely about the Jews of Persia. Just a few years before Esther’s miraculous rise, we had ...
"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...
In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...
A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...
TEHRAN - A new phase of archaeological excavations has commenced on the ruins of Valerian’s Palace in the ancient city of ...
While remaining faithful to Semitic paganism, they adopted a Greco-Roman way of life, as evidenced by the ruins of their capital ... the Sassanid Persian Empire, where Zoroastrianism was the ...
The Purim story is not one of clear right and wrong, writes Michael David Lukas — and Israel's war in Gaza makes confronting ...
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...