The women had to be there and also the babies, not simply because that was how it was at Matan Torah, but for another reason. Neither the women or the babies were complicit in the sin of the eigel, th ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...

It was not only heresy, it was adultery, and that was punishable by ... And so it is in the agricultural world of ancient Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Nile, but also in the earlier planting culture ...

"They [certain Egyptian heretics] exercise genital acts ... the partner lest by fornication the other sin damnably [through adultery]…[T]hey [must] not turn away from them the mercy of God ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

Cristiano Ronaldo did not miss Al-Nassr's clash with Iranian side Esteghlal due to claims he would face 99 lashes for adultery, the country's embassy has claimed. The Portuguese superstar missed ...

Jewelry was an important part of ancient Egyptian culture. Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods ...

Animals in ancient Egypt were mummified for use as votive offerings. The objects often took the form of the god being offered to—in this case, the croc-headed god Sobek. (From cats to crocodiles ...