Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East ... both the Bible and Israeli ...

Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient ... Culture in the Bible,” published by Yale University Press in 2018. He also taught Middle East politics and ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

Trump’s January 25th statement on relocating 1.5 million Gazans to Egypt and Jordan may be the smartest chess move in this ...

Christian Zionism is an ideology among some evangelical Christians, particularly in the United States, that interprets the Bible as promising ... Riviera of the Middle East.” ...

After Israel launched its full-scale offensive in Lebanon in September, many fled to the Mediterranean island.

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third ...

Map of the northern Middle East showing the Arabian and Eurasian plates and their collision zone, as well as the study area, the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Credit: available under Creative Commons 4.0 ...