Beyond what we see in ruins and texts, ancient Jerusalem was alive with sound — from temple chants and crowded markets to the ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

For Jews, the site once housed Solomon's Temple, where the Ark of the Covenant was enshrined. Muslims believe it was from this rock that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven during the Mi'raj, his ...

Today, roughly 1,200 residents call Motza home – a mix of multi-generational families and a growing wave of young professionals drawn by the promise of space and quiet.

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

Indeed, many of the prophets predicted military defeats, exiles and even the destruction of the Holy Temple, if our people and its ... if she had offered up her very soul.” And Jerusalem and its ...

However, the prophet foretold a day when Jerusalem would be desolate, and the temple burned and laid to ruins (see Isaiah 64:10-11). Isaiah understood that those who loved Jerusalem would mourn for ...

With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku, the ancient society is widely ...

Ancient temple ruins discovered in Andes pull back curtain on lost society after 1,000 years The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious ...

Ancient Temple Ruins Shed Light on Life of Tiwanaku, a Thriving Pre-Inca Civilization Recent archaeological discovery expands our knowledge on complex Indigenous societies in South America.