An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

Archaeologists anticipate further discoveries during excavations that will reveal more about the heritage of Nicaea.

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

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

JERUSALEM --Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than what some scholars think. Using handwriting ...

Fr. José Cabrera's interactive Bible Museum offers visitors the opportunity to handle facsimile copies of ancient texts ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "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 ...