The Maccabean Revolt was one of the most striking conflicts between Israelites and ancient Greeks, commemorated today through ...

Register readers in letters published Dec. 23-29, 2024, address water quality and the incoming Trump administration.

With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

Many different civilizations have risen in the Near East over the millennia and each had their own unique religion, though ...

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

Every Christmas season, as in every Easter season, I retreat from bread and butter life, including revelry, to retreat as ...

In second grade ... to explain that the temple sacrifices are no longer needed because of Jesus’ blood that was shed on the cross, they were very relieved. One of the little girls said, “Oh, that is ...

Researchers analyzed the 1,500-year-old remains of six elite individuals buried together in a pyramid-like temple.

The Army boss assured them that their sacrifices would never go in vain. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluyede said this at a Christmas luncheon with the sick and wounded soldiers ...

This date has become a symbol of sacrifice for the country and its people. When Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto decided to return to her homeland after eight years in exile, her friends and ...

The dual Israeli-American citizen has come to symbolize the sacrifice by hundreds of fallen soldiers in what many in Israel see as a war for the country’s survival. “He became a symbol of ‘D ...