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Among the lost treasures Abdul Manan Shiway Sharq wishes to recover is a 1,200-year-old siddur.

Volunteers have cleaned up stunning sites including Sanhedrin seat and huge Roman theater that were buried under trash; as authorities argue, experts plead to set up national park

If two days of Purim isn’t enough for you to start loving Teveria, you’re in luck. There’s a third day, and for the really frum, even a fourth day of Purim here 

The Luzzatto High Holiday mahzor, which will be on sale at a public auction in Sotheby’s New York on Tuesday, is far more than an ancient manuscript: it may be the most i

To begin with, Anunnaki translates to “princely blood” or “seed of Anu”, not “those who came down” or “those who came from heaven to earth”, as many modern sources have claimed. The Anunnaki are “the Sumerian deities of the old primordial time;” a pantheon of gods who were the children of the sky god Anu and his sister, Ki. Significantly, some scholars have come to realize that the Anunnaki should more appropriately be considered demi-gods or semi-divine beings. Apparentl...

According to the Hebrew University, archaeologists in Tiberias, Israel, unearthed an ancient mosque, but what’s even more interesting was that it was found beneath another very old mosque. Located close to the bottom of Mount Berenice, the site of the mosque has been known about since 1952 but experts during that time thought that it was the remains of a Byzantine marketplace. But when archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman from the Hebrew University started excavating the location back in 2009...

The discovery of such an old building offers a rare opportunity to examine the original foundations. Archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew University) Cytryn-Silverman estimated the mosque was 22 by 49 meters in size, with a courtyard, making it smaller than the slightly more recent mosque discovered on top of it, which is 78 by 90 meters and dates from a hundred years later, between 720 CE and 740 CE. A clue to when the older mosque was built came ...