For the next several months, some of the oldest religious texts in history will be on display in D.C. at the Museum of the Bible.

Italian researchers found 2,000-year-old olive and vine remains under the Holy Sepulchre, matching John’s garden description ...

Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden ...

The Central Intelligence Agency’s long history with psychic research has resurfaced in a surprising new context, as a ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

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

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. 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 young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

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

For more than a decade, a set of tiny lead books from Jordan has sat in a strange place between wonder and doubt. Some people ...