A scene in the life of the Amazon jungle. (Photos and text appear courtesy of Dominic Bracco II/Prime for Smithsonian Magazine.) On a cloudless afternoon in the foothills of the Andes, Eliana Martínez ...

As he weaves in and out of traffic in New York City on a Friday afternoon, David Itzkowitz has two things on his mind: Shabbat and beer. Beer because Itzkowitz, 26, is a co-founder of Lost Tribes, a ...

For remote Amazonian tribes, the common cold can be deadly, experts say. June 3, 2008 — -- When a so-called "uncontacted" tribe was spotted last week in Brazil shooting arrows at a passing plane, ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...

The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have fascinated historians, theologians, and explorers for centuries. After the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, these tribes were said to ...

In 2009, David Itzkowitz, Andrew Septimus, Allan Farago, Ari Smith and Rabbi Harry Rozenberg teamed up to form a gypsy brewery — a brewery that invents recipes, but makes them using another company’s ...

If you believe you’re a distant descendant of a “lost tribe of Israel” and want to reconnect to this ancient past, all you have to do is go online — where you’ll now find a detailed course on the ...

Stephen Nugent has received funding from the University of London; Leverhulme Trust. Meanwhile, the National Geographic (partly responsible for the funding of the project) announced that the “Amazon ...

Researcher planned photos to make political point, reports say. June 24, 2008 — -- Last month, the world marveled over photos of a "lost" tribe in Brazil shooting arrows at a passing plane. Who ...

The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang Rai, its banks and the ...

Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...