New York officials announced that a 16-century book called the Di Gara text will be returned to its rightful owner after it ...

and is noted for its close transmission of the ancient Hebrew text. The Codex Sassoon, the earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible ever discovered. (credit: ARDON BAR-HAMA/ANU - THE MUSEUM OF THE ...

In “The Bible: A Global History,” Bruce Gordon chronicles the Christian Bible’s progression from a collection of ancient ...

The 'scarlet worm' mentioned in the Bible is a scale insect, which lives in oak trees, with the main species of the ancient world being Kermes ... The scarlet dye is known as as shani or tola’at shani ...

Today, we examine the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament’s warning about sin and, next week, the New Testament. Since sin is an unpopular and uncomfortable subject, church sermons tend to shy away from ...

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Resin from a tree grown from a seed found in caves in the late 1980s could be the Bibical "Balm of Judea", a study suggests.

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...