IN the year 1866 the Duc de Luynes organised an expedition for investigating the physical geography and geology of the Holy Land and part ... The present instalment, after its introductory and ...

Rebels had hunkered down in near-inaccessible caves, but Herod ordered them to be stormed by lowering crate after crate containing ... as a city for pagans, the holy city of Jerusalem was also ...

While Congress shelved Lynch’s report recommending colonization, it helped spark the US’s fascination with the Holy Land – and led ... The story begins shortly after the American Civil ...

he’s part of a 700-year-old Franciscan mission to look after and protect ancient religious sites in the Holy Land—and, since the 19th century, to excavate them according to scientific principles.