On Shemini Atzeret, the seventh day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...
In the ancient city of Orraon or Horreum in Epirus, Greece, one can still see the best preserved ancient houses from the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Four well-preserved buildings of the late ...
The ancient Jewish holiday of Sukkot began Wednesday evening, offering a timely antidote to the global problems of loneliness, depression and materialism.
According to statistics from 1922, there were 800 houses in Akre and 4,000 people living there. The majority were Kurds, although there were also 40 Jewish and 20 Chaldean families. In recent years, ...
Turkish archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery at the ancient Greek city of Alexandria Troas, in Canakkale, a seaport city on the southern shore of the Dardanelles along the Aegean Sea in ...