Sometime in the 12th century B.C., a family in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, in what is today Israel, mourned the loss of a child. But they didn’t go to the city’s cemetery. Instead, they dug a ...

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

Rebuilding the past often takes more than digging through ruins or reading faded scrolls. To truly understand ancient conflicts, scientists are turning to archaeomagnetism—a method that reads the ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a rare clay seal mark and a 2,600-year-old stone stamp bearing Biblical names amid the ruins of a building destroyed by the ancient Babylonians. The amazing ...

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

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered an ancient Biblical era temple in Israel. The ruins of the Canaanite temple were discovered within a large Bronze Age settlement in what is now ...

Pew Research reveals a paradox: while interest in Christianity may be rising, only 22% of Americans read the Bible weekly and 61% rarely or never read it, often stumped by its unfamiliar genealogies ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

Wet sifting brings us closer than ever to the world of Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Hezekiah. The closest I’ve ever felt to the prophet Jeremiah was sitting at the bottom of an empty cistern. About 20 years ...

A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in ...