The secret lies in extremely powerful wind vortices, such as tornadoes or waterspouts, which form over bodies of water like lakes, rivers, or the sea. When these vortices develop, they suck up water ...

According to the biblical Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities inflicted by God to convince the ...

With Passover and Earth Day being celebrated on Monday, Eli Greenstein Jacober’s thoughts turn to plagues — both biblical and modern. The Jewish educator traces a through line from the hail, frogs and ...

Is it a coincidence that just as we were heading into Passover, Illinois was preparing for a plague of cicadas? The Jewish holiday, as you may know, commemorates the bible story about the Israeli ...

With a graphic account of the tenth and worst punishment, the chain of Plagues in the Book of Exodus comes to an end. Scientists, archeologists and historians look at contemporary evidence to find ...

Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has vowed to unleash the symbolic biblical “10 plagues of Egypt” on Yemen’s Houthi rebels following a renewed wave of missile attacks directed at Israel. In a ...

The Old Testament tells of 10 terrifying plagues that brought death and destruction to ancient Egypt. Is there truth behind the legends? Follow archaeologists on the Nile Delta as they excavate the ...