The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament is expected to fetch up to US$2 million ...

Lighting the menorah candles is one of the most common Hanukkah traditions. Even if you don’t know much about the Jewish religion, you probably recognize the candelabras that appear in windows every ...

With Waze guiding us and the “Avoid toll roads” setting switched on, we found ourselves in a different world, far from the ...

Reporter Ron Grossman isn’t finished telling great Chicago stories. In honor of his 90th birthday, here’s a look back at the ...

Pioneer Howard Rosenstein came to Israel with $500 and found a life of adventure, innovation and, oddly, music.

The selection of musical events this weekend has a bit of an international flavor with a Chinese dance and music show in West ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Long ago, the colors of fabrics were more than just fashion statements. They were a nonverbal form of communication that ...

A rare glimpse into the Natufian culture and the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one.

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Israel’s Netta Barzilai has not found it easy to create during the 13 months since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on her homeland ...