Last week, archaeologists discovered one of the world’s oldest mosques beneath Rahat, in the south of Israel. There, construction on a new neighborhood in the world’s largest Bedouin city uncovered “a ...

The centuries-old Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest, was badly damaged in an Israeli strike. An Israeli official told NPR it was targeted because... Israeli strike leaves Gaza's oldest mosque in ruins TEL ...

The oldest mosque in Gaza dates back to crusader times a thousand years ago, and it has been badly damaged by an Israeli strike. An Israeli official says Hamas militants were using it as cover. People ...

(The Conversation) — Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology. The mosque was ...

One of the oldest mosques on Long Island broke ground Friday on a project that will nearly triple its size to accommodate a growing congregation. Following an afternoon prayer service Friday, elected ...

The mosque was found in the Bedouin town of Rahat in Israel’s Negev desert. Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty Images Archaeologists in Israel’s Negev desert have unearthed a 1,200-year-old ...

In the town of Khulm, near the epicenter, people dug through the rubble of collapsed mud brick homes with shovels and picked through debris to salvage what belongings they could.

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