Houses of Refuge are not a modern improvement. When Moses stood in the plains of Moab hard by Jericho, it was ordered that among the gifts to the Levites should be certain cities of refuge ...

“The workhouse served as a refuge for the city’s poor, offering shelter to those who had fallen on hard times,” Cotswold Archaeology said. But a “refuge” it was not, and workhouses were ...

This discovery supports the hypothesis that the Iberian Peninsula served as a climatic refuge during the Ice Age, reinforcing the notion of its stability during this period. The research team ...