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 ...

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 ...

A plague of locusts has made its way through Africa along the Red Sea coast and towards Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The swarm of billions of crop-devouring grasshoppers arrived after a period of heavy ...

The Hebrew Bible does not number the plagues of Egypt, but the number ten has been canonized in Jewish and Christian tradition, and a list of the ten plagues appears in the Jewish Passover ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the human remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible one ancient writer believed the world was ending.

The announcement of the seventh plague, though, differs from the preceding warnings in a number of interesting ways.

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

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 ...

‘THE SEVENTH Plague of Egypt’ (1823) by English Romantic painter John Martin (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Yet, the rationalizers run into a brick wall with the 10th, final and most devastating ...