A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

When my boys were young and hard to coax to museums, I had one line that invariably persuaded them over the threshold: “Let’s go and see some dead people!” ...

A major community archaeology project exploring the ancient heritage of Burnley and Nelson – including the lost site of a legendary battle – has been awarded more than £100,000 from the National ...

For centuries, the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred gold-plated chest said to contain the Ten Commandments, has been one of the greatest mysteries in religious history. The object, which once ...

The University of Chicago will award honorary degrees to three distinguished scholars on June 6 during its Convocation ...

For centuries, archaeologists have searched for cities mentioned in biblical texts. The capital of the Akkadian Empire may lie buried beneath modern development near Baghdad. Bethsaida, linked to the ...

(Norman Golb (1928 – 2020) was a scholar of Jewish history and the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Norman Golb ...

The National Museum of the Great Lakes this week announced the discovery of a 157-year-old shipwreck in Lake Erie, the second 1800s wreck revealed this month. The Clough, a stone-hauling bark owned by ...

Prime Video has set an Easter window for the premiere of biblical drama House of David, from Wonder Project and Amazon MGM Studios. The series will launch globally with all episodes on the streamer on ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. While research on women and children has flourished in recent decades, older ...