Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

The most impassioned responses I’ve gotten—and not saying these people liked the book, by any stretch of the imagination— ...

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

Reverend Peter Crumpler says it makes "the council meetings no-go areas for religion". Growing numbers of people are breaking fast at the community Iftar, Muslim leaders say. In 11th-Century ...

Harvard scientist Dr. Willie Soon introduces a bold hypothesis that a mathematical formula could prove the existence of God. Drawing upon the fine-tuning argument, he suggests that the universe's ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...

The conflicting tales reveal Aphrodite's obscure origins. She was not native to early Greek religion but seems to have developed over centuries, influenced by a variety of Near Eastern goddesses such ...

I’m also on BookTok. This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” came out ...