An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered ...

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While in the area, you must visit Masada, which sits about 60 miles south of Jerusalem along the southeast coast of the Dead Sea. Overlooking the sea from its cliff-side perch, this archaeological ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

Hurston spent something like fifteen years researching and writing “Herod.” She called it her “great obsession.” This was far more time than she spent on any other book project.

Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og, lies openly in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the flamboyant, mocking rebel among Harlem’s Black literary creatives as well as a ...