Remarkably, the town of Al Qosh is home to the remains of an ancient Jewish Synagogue, and within its confines, the tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi. The tomb, purported to be 2,700-years-old is guarded by a ...

Jewish officials in Kurdistan are trying to save an ancient tomb believed to belong to the biblical prophet Nahum and his sister in the Christian town of Alqosh, some 30 miles outside the ISIS ...

An ancient Jewish site located just 30 miles from Islamic State-controlled Mosul is at risk of collapsing, a representative of Kurdish Jewry says. Sherzan Omer, Kurdish Jewry’s representative in the ...

This report is part of a series. For several years, the Kurdish Jewish leadership in Israel has tried to build constructively on their historic ties with the Kurdistan Region, but has been obstructed ...

ALQOSH, Iraq, Aug. 3 (UPI) --Jewish officials are appealing to save a 1,500-year-old tomb that is in danger of collapsing just 30 miles from Islamic State-controlled Mosul. It could be just a matter ...

The 1,500-year-old building was for centuries the site of a major Jewish pilgrimage each year on the holiday of Shavuot. (JTA) — An ancient Jewish site located just 30 miles from Islamic ...

There are three important factors concerning the date of Nahum’s prophecy. First, in 3:8–10, the fall of the Egyptian city of No-amon (i.e. Thebes) to the Assyrians is spoken of as a past event, ...

U.S. Army captain and heritage expert Heather Sprowls, shown here with a local girl, surveys an 800-year-old synagogue believed to house the tomb of the biblical prophet Nahum. The crumbling stone ...

The rather large grasshoppers all have different human faces. The trees have human bodies with branches sprouting out of their heads. The animals in the Peaceable Kingdom garden seated at Isaiah’s ...