One of the most pitiful characters in biblical history was a man named Belshazzar. He was the last king of the Babylonian empire, a poor candidate to fill the shoes of others such as Nebuchadnezzar, ...

In my last column, I highlighted some of the best objects to view in the night sky through the end of the year. However, ...

A 3,000-year-old map found at The British Museum could lead us to the real resting place of Noah’s Ark, with clues hidden in ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Do you trust me? That was the question I heard from one of my sons as he, through a sly grin, begged me to sit down. Because ...

Rioters outside Park East synagogue in New York recently chanted genocidal screeds such as “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.” But ...

Labubu dolls jumped from niche art toys to global obsession driven by scarcity, celebrity buzz and soaring resale prices, ...

Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...

Such lyrical poise is unusual in Mesopotamian literature. Most surviving texts are legal codes, myths, or royal inscriptions. One of the oldest surviving Babylonian clay tablets is a 3,700-year-old ...

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform ...

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin ...

Modern scientists point to an empirical truth: We live on a planet in constant motion and mutation. As Winchester presents it ...