In an instance of form following content, Joseph Mallord William Turner's "The Fifth Plague of Egypt" was recently exiled from its home at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for the exhibit "J.M.W ...

The Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted on Egypt to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Although the ...

This Qur’anic teaching about the Biblical tenth plague should be discussed by Jews during the Passover Seder (April 22 evening to sunset on April 30, 2024) at the time when we recount the ten ...

As far as explanations go, "magic stick" is not the most satisfying, but it's about all you get in the Bible for how the Nile turned blood red, the first of the Plagues of Egypt. Though the ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really the case? Researchers from the University of ...