The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

The ancient Greek wall painting decorating the tomb of King Philip of Macedonia comes back to life after archaeologists restored it digitally ...

In the last decade, the Huqoq Excavation Project has found mosaics depicting Noah's Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and more ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

"The Ceiling," launched in Israel, captures the artistry and spiritual beauty of Poland’s wooden synagogues.The post Wanda Peretz’s journey through art, faith and history appeared first on JNS.org.

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

As a scholar who studies Jewish languages, I have collected countless examples of Jews around the world using variants of the ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

I first heard Himmat Shah saying this to artist Pooja Iranna as I followed them around during Shah’s retrospective, “Hammer of the Square,” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA ... Lothal—an ancient ...