Amid an intensive archeological survey to retrieve biblical treasures before antiquity looters, a rare 2,000-year-old Hebrew coin was located in the heart of ancient Israel.

For biblical scholars, archeologists and Israelis, the excavation of the coin is sensational because it is engraved in ancient Hebrew with the words "Holy Jerusalem." The coin is dated to 66/67CE ...

JERUSALEM — Christians have been making pilgrimages to the Holy Land since the time of St. Helena in the fourth century, and the most significant sites of Christian interest — from the ...

Two parchments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an ancient inscription believed to be the first mention of the House of David outside of biblical text, the heel bone of a person believed to have been ...

High Tech in the Holy Land Through virtual reality, Jerusalem gives tourists a look at the Holy Land as Jesus would have seen it. By Sara Toth Stub Contributor Dec. 24, 2018, at 8:00 a.m.

Ancient Israel was once home to a number of lions, and though the animals have since vanished from the area, their influence on the land can be seen throughout religious texts and across the city ...

By then, its significance was clear: A cartographic masterpiece, the Madaba mosaic is the earliest map of the Holy Land. (Tower of Babel featured on ancient synagogue mosaic.) ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land: In Sound Communication, students learn how the International Phonetic Alphabet is used to communicate the sounds of words ...

A geographer can help others imagine what a far-away place looked like at a given point in time.Research behind a new book by a Terre Haute geography expert could help ...

A 1,500-year-old wine factory the size of a modern-day football field has been unearthed in Israel, showing how vintners met demand for high quality white wine popular throughout the ancient world.