Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh, was recently uncovered in Italy – and the find is the oldest of its kind in Europe. On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery, which ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - A unique ancient Jewish bathhouse or mikveh has been found at Rome's ancient port of Ostia Antica.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a hoard of bronze Roman coins in an underground complex. Dated back to the fourth century C.E., the coins were likely hidden during the little-known Gallus ...

A theory has been advanced here in the Evening News to the effect that Gaelic was the language of the ancient Jews in Palestine. “It is rather remarkable,” says the News article, “that throughout the ...

This genetic burden suggests that the population was shaped by what geneticists call a founder event or a bottleneck. In other words, a small number of foremothers and forefathers contributed much of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa and Kyle Peterson. Images: AP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Of all the ways to observe Rosh ...

“Epiphany of Queen Esther” by Los Angeles-based artist Shahin Dardashti (shahinart.com). This time of year, many non-Persian Jewish friends remind me that as an Iranian Jew, “my holiday” is just ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...

(JNS) A new scholarly paper finds “inconclusive” evidence that Jews participated in the ancient Roman gladiatorial games. But it is clear that they defied rabbinic admonitions and attended the games ...