Some 2,000 years ago, olive trees and grapevines likely grew on the land where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ...

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...

Life in ancient Jerusalem was shaped by a vastly different soundscape, one that modern noise pollution has all but erased. What did the city sound like 2,000 years ago? Donald Trump Announces ...

JERUSALEM, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have uncovered several human burials in a cave in central Israel dating back to the mid-Middle Palaeolithic period, around 130,000 to 80,000 years ...

Ancient Jerusalem A sprawling city today, Jerusalem was nothing but a fortified ridge in the desert when David seized it 3,000 years ago. New excavations are revealing its successive stages of ...

The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is leading a campaign to renovate and modernize dozens of schools in ...

The Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem issued an urgent call for Israeli authorities to stop a government plan to seize and ...

Myths, of the Da Vinci Code variety, abound that vessels from the ancient Jerusalem Temples are squirreled away somewhere in the Vatican’s bowels. Of course, if the Vatican actually had the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts in Megiddo, supporting biblical accounts of a historic ...

According to the Bible, David united the 12 tribes of ancient Israel into a great, unified kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia, with Jerusalem as its capital. Yet some scholars today ...

For most visitors, the highlight of a City of David visit is Hezekiah's Tunnel. The tunnel was ancient Jerusalem's primary source of water, according to the Bible. Today, you can traverse this ...