A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh, was recently uncovered in Italy – and the find is the oldest of its kind in Europe. On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery, which ...

Isaac Asimov’s iconic science fiction collection “I, Robot” tells the story of androids created at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. The androids range from “Robbie,” who is nonvocal, to “Stephen ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery has shed new light on the burial culture and beliefs of ancient Romans in Israel. Four rare bronze discs, shaped like lion heads, have been unearthed in a salvage ...

Don’t blame me if this week’s column is a bit technical. It’s by popular demand. No fewer than five readers have written to question the statement in my column of November 10 that “classical Hebrew ...

The real history of Jewish gladiators, from Reish Lakish to Kirk Douglas. In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

(The Conversation) — Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate ...