During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning still remains ...

It’s called “The Dead Internet Theory.” The idea is that most of the internet is dominated by AI-generated content, with ...

History Knox Mark Sebastian Jordan authors a column on Knox County history MOUNT VERNON — In the history business, we often trace the origin points of later prominent figures and emphasize their roots ...

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Hamas has freed three hostages in the southern Gaza Strip and Israel has released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ...

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and tyranny in its place.

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

Mark 13:35-37, “Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Israel tried to operate settler colonialism on the pattern of earlier European settler colonialisms established around the ...

After a concerning weight miss update from Israel Adesanya, he and Nassourdine Imavov successfully weighed in for their UFC ...

While investors fret about what the arrival of DeepSeek means for their all-in bet on American artificial intelligence ...