Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a ...

There’s something magical about discovering a place that feels like it was waiting just for you to find it. Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Indiana, is exactly that kind of treasure.

The Saqqara Necropolis was the Burial ground for the Ancient Capital City of Memphis, which lies south of Cairo. On October ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There ...

The list of prospective new Oscar voters also includes Ariana Grande, Danielle Deadwyler, Coralie Fargeat and Brady Corbet ...

It is an ancient practice. In the Bible, Abraham purchased a plot for his wife, Sarah. Joseph told his children and grandchildren that he wanted to be reinterred from Egypt to Israel.

There are two of these so-called "Tombs of Abraham" in this region, the one Mr. Banks desired to excavate and the other southwest of Babylon, where tradition says the Tower of Babel was situated.

The cave where Abraham buried Sarah is most similar to the shaft tombs found at the beginning and end of the Early Bronze Age. In the same time period one finds a monumental city with a royal ...

The cave where Abraham buried Sarah is most similar to the shaft tombs found at the beginning and end of the Early Bronze Age. In the same time period one finds a monumental city with a royal ...

Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, ‘I am a resident alien among you; sell me a burial site among you, that I may remove my dead for burial.’” (Genesis ...