Generations of monks once lived in this monastic complex, and by the fifth century, it was also a hub of Coptic art and ...

Archaeologists working at an ancient site in the Levant have recovered a roughly 3,000-year-old glass head, an Iron Age artifact that researchers say adds new layers of complexity to one of the ...

Archaeologists Discover Tooth and Bones That Could Challenge Early Christianity ...

Ritual artifacts belonging to the Canaanites, an ancient people referenced in the Old Testament, were recently found in Israel — along with a 5,000-year-old winepress. The Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have always been fascinated by the idea of walking through history, imagining the lives of people who lived thousands of years ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the "Good Shepherd," which is being hailed as one of the most important finds from Anatolia's early Christian era. The ...

Archaeologists in Iraq recently uncovered evidence suggesting that Christians co-existed with a now-little-known religion. The discovery, announced by Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, was made ...

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought. By Clay Risen Gabriel Barkay, a leading figure in ...