For decades, diplomats, pundits, and policymakers have fixated on one year when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict: 1967.

The country’s first Latter-day Saint temple will join 17 other temples in Southeast Asia and 31 in Asia as a whole.

In the holy writings of the ancient Jews, King Cyrus of Persia has the distinction of being the first and only foreign Messiah.

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday. The couple recited a ...

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

Zias, published in the journal Levant, reveals how ancient Phoenicians may have incorporated cleansing into their religious ...

Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy and piety, all the humor and skepticism, for me one of the most moving ...

Biblical-era worship site found in Jerusalem's City of David. The exceptional structure, dating to the First Temple period, was revealed during excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities ...

Comprising a series of eight rock-hewn rooms, the structure is believed to have been used for ritual purposes while the Temple still stood on the Temple Mount, just a few hundred meters away.

A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred vessel that was the First Temple’s central fixture, was displayed in ...