Acre

How did enslaved soldiers become the rulers of Egypt and the Levant for 267 years? The Mamluk system explained.

One product, three seals, and no way to tell which is "the" kosher one. How a single biblical sentence became a 1,500-agency industry.

From a $225 Rio-to-Lima marathon to a $24,000 guided expedition, the world's longest bus rides are a study in slow-travel misery.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every...