The discovery is the only known early Christian-era example of its kind outside Italy, revealing an ancient past when ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, called palimpsest, involves carefully scraping off the original writing to make ...

When scholars traced the Bible’s earliest stories back through history, they found striking parallels in Egyptian ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

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 ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

The star of ‘The Santa Clause,’ ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Home Improvement’ read the whole Bible for the first time recently. He can’t ...