A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Archaeologists working in the mountains near Yulin, in China's Shaanxi Province, have found 573 ancient stone fortresses ...

Genesis 15 takes that promise and presses it deeper. God doesn’t bargain, negotiate, or meet Abraham halfway—He walks the covenant path alone. Abraham stands there watching the smoke and flame glide ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

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Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

With around 80 works believed to survive today, here's our top 10 of paintings by Caravaggio: the ultimate Baroque Bad Boy.

Long before the rise of Islam, the Middle East was home to powerful kingdoms, complex religions, and vast trade networks that ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...