Commissioned in the mid-19th century by Maharaja Khande Rao Gaekwad of Baroda, the Pearl Carpet was intended as a devotional ...

For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began ...

Al Masjid an Nabawi located in Medina, Saudi Arabia, is the second holiest site in Islamic history, it is also the second mosque ever built. Masjid al Nabawi Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the Prophets Mosque ...

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This inscription was found during excavations at Nineveh on the back of a fallen "lamassu," a deity with a human's head and the body of a lion or bull. It reads (in translation): "The palace of ...

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A day after arriving in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Michigan rabbi Asher Lopatin woke up at 3 a.m. and set out across the dusty desert landscape for the small town of ...

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