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 ...

Amid the vast destruction of the war, a small group of determined individuals fought to save Gaza's archaeological heritage.

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest ...

For just one year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington will host a rare exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which feature ...

It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” ...

"Double dyeing achieved a sophisticated imitation that could easily pass for authentic royal purple ," Dr. Sukenik explains. "Madder and woad were widely available, far cheaper, and far easier to work ...

The Museum of the Bible will display of the oldest copies of biblical fragments in Dead Sea Scrolls The Exhibition, which ...

A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose's reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with ...

Many scholars today argue that the Israelites never really conquered Canaan. What does the evidence really show?

Archaeologists traced a 2,000-foot limestone boulevard likely linking the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, built under the ...

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.

The world is filled with sunken cities. One study has counted 2,600 in 19 countries – victims of the Great Flood myth that permeates various ancient cultures from the Sumerians to the Bible – or ...