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JERUSALEM --The tomb of Jesus has been restored to its former glory. Just in time for Easter, a Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine that tradition ...

JERUSALEM – Renovations at Christianity’s holiest site – carried out over the past nine months – were finally unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony that brought together rival Christian denominations and ...

In Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people's houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky soil.

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When looters broke into a burial cave in Israel’s Judean Lowlands in the 1980s, they set off a chain of excavations that continue to this day. First came a prolonged dig led by Israel Antiquities ...

"I'm at one of the most special places in the entire world," Tim Tebow says in the beginning of the video, which was taken during a recent trip Tim Tebow celebrated Easter by looking back to the place ...

Archaeological work in the region of Tal Lachish in Israel has revealed an extraordinary complex surrounding an equally extraordinary tomb. The cave dates back to 2,000 years ago, to the Second Temple ...

But one tomb unearthed in Talpiot in 1980 is being looked at differently now because it once held a box with this inscription: Jesus, son of Joseph. While biblical text tells us about Jesus of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In a story March 20 about renovations at the tomb of Jesus, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Edicule is revered by Christians as the site where Jesus rose to heaven.