A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

As a professor of ancient history, one of the questions I often get when I teach the history of Pharonic Egypt is about the biblical story of the Exodus. Did this wonderful story of Moses and the ...

The Exodus echoes remind us that Jewish and African liberations are intertwined. In facing jihadist “Pharaohs,” this biblical ...

The Register’s film critic explores scriptural and religious issues raised by Ridley Scott’s new biblical film, starring Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton. Many retellings of the Exodus story focus on ...

Some called 2014 the year of the biblical epic. Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings is the third entry in the category after Son of God and Noah, and Ang Lee reportedly has his own Exodus-based film ...

When does the liberation from Egyptian slavery begin? Most would say with Moses. Yet long before he learned how to speak truth to power, there was a young girl whose daring act paved the way for Moses ...

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” — Sue Monk Kidd, author During a Passover seder, Jews tell the story of Exodus to remind us of ...

About 3,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries, an evil man ruled a desert kingdom. He enslaved an entire people, worked them to death, even murdered their newborn children. He was Pharaoh, the ...

NEW YORK — Sporting a bushy beard, Joel Edgerton barely resembles the clean-shaven Pharaoh Ramses he plays in Ridley Scott’s $150 million epic, “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” Christian Bale stars as Moses.