Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he ...

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...

(JTA) — More than 20 years after the theft of ancient Torah scrolls from a Samaritan synagogue in Nablus, the Israel Antiquities Authority retrieved one page from the missing objects and invited ...