Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Students from five rabbinical schools tell the Forward how they're thinking about artificial intelligence in relation to ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

The Exodus story was a model of providential liberation and deliverance for Americans rebelling against Britain’s pharaonic ...

A surprising number of people say they are open to the existence of angels. Their Old Testament identities are very different ...

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Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

For the release of her latest pop up book, we talked to the graphic designer and paper engineer about why her career has been geared towards designing and making “impossible” publications. You don’t ...