The Alabaster Jar Project, a local 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, recently announced a way to get involved in the fight against human trafficking. At 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, live on Zoom, ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster containers from the burial of King Tut has taunted archaeologists with a simple but stubborn question: what, exactly, did these elegant jars once hold.

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...

IN Biblical times, alabaster was both common and precious. It is a stone commonly found in Israel but was one of the precious stones used in King Solomon’s temple. Back then, an alabaster flask or jar ...