The East after the disintegration of the Mongol Empire. Credit: Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia ... Thus, the Ilkhanate became the absolute master of the Holy Land. However, the situation lasted barely ...

Borders are a relatively new arrival in the region, as the Ottoman Empire ruled the ... the British felt the “Holy River Jordan” belonged in the Holy Land, as Biger put it.

The fact that the Nabatean people, the nomadic Arabs who crisscrossed the region until they grew wealthy from trade, made Petra the capital of their empire by the fourth century B.C. is baffling.

In 2023, I made a life-changing pilgrimage to the Holy Land with my order, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. I saw all the towns that Jesus ministered in, such as Galilee ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

Why would a Moroccan Jew visit the Chamber of the Holocaust in the Old City of Jerusalem? I wondered this when I recently chanced upon the above photographs of my father Nessim z”l, from his ...

It has also ignited safety concerns. In 1834 a frenzied stampede broke out in the darkened church, and the ruler of the Holy Land at the time barely escaped after his guards drew swords and hacked ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a centuries-old ceremony known as the Holy Fire. Holding unlit ...

Titled “The bloodshed in Palestine/Israel must end,” the pontiff urged peace across the Holy Land, a place he says has seen “atrocious wars, resulting in a river of blood that does not cease.” ...