On Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) will host a Capitol Hill staff briefing titled “Preventing Genocide Through Education” in Room 156 of the Cannon House ...

Gypsum wall panel relief depicting enemy troopers ghting Assyrian chariotry. From the Northwest Palace at Nimrūd, dating to Aššurnāşirpal’s reign. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum Historian ...

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JISH, northern Israel — In plain view of a Hezbollah stronghold, Shadi Khalloul scanned a fig tree for the best fruit to offer his guests. “Take some if you have a plastic bag,” Khalloul, 48, said on ...

Texts from the ancient Near East tell of powerful neighbors—Egyptians, Arameans, Assyrians, and Babylonians—attacking the lands of Israel and Judah. Some archaeological ruins align neatly with these ...

Lost in the uproar over Israel’s proposed Nationality Bill has been the historic recognition of Arameans as a separate nationality in Israel. Israel is the first country in the world to recognize the ...

This year, as in all non-leap years, the two parashot Tazria and Metzora are combined. And as in all non-leap years, the double parashah Tazria-Metzora falls close to Yom ha-Atzma’ut, Israel ...

After more than three decades of excavation efforts in the ancient site of Bethsaida in the Golan Heights, archaeologists have unearthed something miraculous: a city gate that dates back to the time ...

Present-day valley of Rephaim near Jerusalem. Credit: Hagai Agmon-Snir / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new study challenges long-held beliefs about the biblical Valley of Rephaim, offering a fresh perspective on its ...

"A lady, a relative of mine, escaped with her two daughters. Soon after, they were recaptured, and the two girls were carried away to slavery. Their mother died," writes Yonan Shahbaz, a Persian ...

Syrian Assyrians wearing traditional outfits perform a dance as they celebrate the Assyrian New Year in the town of Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, on April 1, 2022. (Delil ...