Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ...

To achieve that, the emperor cleared the remaining ruins of the actual Temple ... and Al-Quds (the Holy), the name for the overall city of Jerusalem. The city’s sanctity was arabized, too.

Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction ... the Magdala Stone is thought to be modeled after the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and may have served as a ceremonial ...

after a fresh round of clashes between Israeli police and Muslim worshippers at the Jerusalem holy site’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. The move was expected to last through Ramadan, but the Temple Mount ...

The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community ... It also held Jewish holy scriptures and documents. Outside was the temple square – this was a marketplace, where pilgrims could buy ...