For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Peace studies students witness locals spitting on a Christians holy site in Jerusalem prompting this response from a ...

The room is briefly described in the Book of Luke 22:11-13, when Jesus Christ requested a large, furnished upper room where ...

A team of archaeologists claims to have located the exact site where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus performed his ...

Lifshits is a co-author with IAA archaeologist Nir-Shimshon Paran of the study in the latest issue of the IAA journal 'Atiqot ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

The room is briefly described in the Book of Luke 22:11-13, when Jesus requested a large, furnished upper room where he and ...

The history of this place is the history of Jerusalem, and at least from a certain moment, it is the history of the worship of Jesus Christ,” the researcher added.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your ...

The space agency’s astronomical models suggest that a lunar eclipse turned the moon red over Jerusalem on Friday, April 3, 33 AD — a date many scholars tie to Jesus’ death. And that eerie ...

In some of them, he even proclaims so in public. But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as a charismatic and popular Jewish preacher who challenges their authority.

People marking the Christian holy day follow the Way of the Cross or Via Dolorosa route through the streets of Old Jerusalem along the path Jesus is believed to have taken prior to his crucifixion ...