The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small booths, temporary shelters that recall the Israelites’ ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain ... the procedure remains sound to this day. Ibn Isa, a 10th-century scholar from Iraq, wrote perhaps what was the most ...

The 1958 coup d’état was not the first upheaval in Iraq’s modern political history ... As a result, there is even to this day an obsession that there be no foreign control.” ...

It was long believed that the statue straddled the harbor entrance, but modern ... Babylon over the last 20 years,” says Harriet Crawford, chairman of the BritishSchool of Archaeology in Iraq.

The people in modern day Iran and Iraq were once known as the Assyrians ... Chaldean is the biblical term used for those from Babylon. Today the Patriarch of this rite located in Bagdad, Iraq ...

I think that when Moses writes about Abraham and Isaac’s meetings with rulers in this area (Genesis 21 and 26), Moses refers to it as the land of the Philistines, much like we would refer to ...

The official invitation extended by Iraq to new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in ...

Dollar remittances sent by our OFWs – touted as the country’s modern-day heroes – symbolize their resilience and sacrifices abroad. There are millions of them. Based on the 2023 Survey on ...

From pulpits to podcasts, gospel soca to Instagram reels, these modern disciples are not waiting ... “Talking to God every day is therapeutic and comforting for me.” SJ wants young people ...