Ever noticed hotels and elevators skip the 13th floor? Blame Triskaidekaphobia—the fear of the number 13. Rooted in mythology ...

The Israel Postal Service has a special Letters to God department ... A dog buried in Ashkelon at the time of the Persian Empire leaves modern-day researchers flummoxed. Photo courtesy of the Leon ...

Tyre came under Persian rule in 572 BC and was later conquered ... Black figure vessel with double Phoenician alphabet inscription, showing new letters ΥΧ[Φ]Ψ, and ΥΧΦΨΩ. Credit: Marsyas Wikipedia CC ...

His suggestion to call the body of water the “Arabian Gulf” has apparently done the impossible: Unite Iranians.

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

A breakup of Alphabet would likely separate its ad businesses from its other enterprises. Alphabet owns more than 200 businesses, according to some estimates. The company does not reveal specific ...

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the ...

Alphabet's revenue increased 14% year over year last quarter to $90.2 billion in constant-currency terms. Meanwhile, the company's earnings jumped 49% from the year-ago period to $2.81 per share.

Investors may wonder whether Alphabet has dealt well with the emerging competition in AI. Alphabet plans to invest $75 billion in capital expenditures this year and can likely afford to do so.

April 24 - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are teaming up to give the U.S. government a major AI upgrade. The two tech firms are integrating Google Cloud into ...