A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered a 4,500-year-old stone statue of a Canaanite goddess. The statue depicts the goddess Anat — the Canaanite deity of love and war. Historians believe that Anat ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

One afternoon in the city of Tyre, the story has it, the Canaanite god Melqart (also known as Heracles) and his mistress, Tyros, were strolling along the beach with their pet dog when the dog took a ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by Macquarie University, a 3,300-year-old bronze figurine of the Canaanite god Baal, a bronze calf statue, two seals, and Canaanite and Philistine ...

The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope ...

Now that my home team, the Washington Nationals, is in the World Series, their opponents, the Houston Astros, will find themselves facing a Nationals pitcher named Aníbal Sánchez. A second Nationals ...

‘Gabriel and the Guardians’ trades “Sunday school characters” for ziggurats and proto-Canaanite gods. An animated fantasy where heroes do battle in make-believe realms may seem an unlikely art form ...