A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

Experts say that the figurines prove that a Christian community lived in southern Israel nearly 1,000 years ago.

Mysterious owners of the artifacts, possibly a mother and child, might have moved to Byzantine village in the Negev from ...

Two readers add their observations of Jennifer A. Stern's photo, taken on the lower East Side in the early 1930s ...