These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

My ultimate destination was South Africa, but I was able to knock another country with a storied history and dynamic economy ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Mesopotamia was one of the cradles of civilization 6000 years ago, located in the fertile valley between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was the birthplace of current day society and the first ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

Three miles north of the Inner Harbor, by Johns Hopkins University’s main campus, is the Baltimore Museum of Art, home of the ...

Their goal is to precisely pinpoint ancient port facilities, analyze historical harbor morphologies, and trace forgotten sea routes. Crucially, the research also seeks to quantify the profound shifts ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce ... From Greece to Mexico to Ethiopia to Japan, it’s not just about ingredients (veggies, herbs, ...

This project combines citizen science and humanitarian engineering to address water insecurity through participatory mapping and infrastructure development. Building on prior research, the team will ...