News

The Blogs | The Times of Israel1dOpinion
The Holocaust and Parshat Shemini
The Italian biblical commentator Ovadiah ben Yakov Sforno (1474-1549) writes: וידום אהרן, seeing he consoled himself after ...
Bite marks reveal gladiator's fatal encounter with a lion in ancient Britain
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...
The Economist2d
The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were
The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...
Greek Reporter2d
Dionysus, the Astonishingly Modern Olympian God
The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...
El Mundo on MSN2d
Álvaro Pombo receives the Cervantes Prize: "To achieve greatness in Spain, to overcome fragility, perhaps we all have to reach depth and poverty"
The novelist and poet receives the first award of Hispanic literature in the presence of the Kings of Spain. Years from now, when Álvaro Pombo is no longer with us, his image and his speech at the ...
TheCollector on MSN2d
Typhon: The Monster Who Threatened Olympus in Greek Mythology
Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...
One Piece Teases the Shocking Truth About Elbaf’s King
One Piece's Elbaf Arc may have just given fans a major clue to unravelling the truth about King Harald at long last.
Orthodox Christians in Gaza City attend Easter Sunday service, as Israeli strikes continue
Palestinian Orthodox Christians gathered on Sunday to attend the Easter service at the Greek Orthodox church, St. Porphyrios, ...