Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a rare clay seal mark and a 2,600-year-old stone stamp bearing Biblical names amid the ruins of a building destroyed by the ancient Babylonians. The amazing ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered an ancient site that may offer fresh insight into the ancient biblical kingdom of David and Solomon. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have been excavating ...

It transforms how we understand ancient history and deepens our grasp of Earth's geomagnetic complexities. As researchers refine this dating method and explore its applications, they are not only ...

From Christ’s ‘city on a hill’ to the ‘pilgrim’s road’ from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, archaeological endeavors in Israel hold historical promise for contemporary believers. Visitors will ...

E xperts have uncovered hidden language patterns and identified likely authors of some of the Bible's oldest books – using ...

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 ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand. But ...

Pew Research reveals a paradox: while interest in Christianity may be rising, only 22% of Americans read the Bible weekly and 61% rarely or never read it, often stumped by its unfamiliar genealogies ...

For just one year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington will host a rare exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which feature fragments of the Psalms, Genesis, and the Ten Commandments, among other ...

Sometime in the 12th century B.C., a family in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, in what is today Israel, mourned the loss of a child. But they didn’t go to the city’s cemetery. Instead, they dug a ...