The most venerated site in the Christian world, the tomb today consists ... considered the burial place of Jesus. Photograph by Oded Balilty, AP for National Geographic Inscribed with a Christian ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also believed by Christians to house Jesus’s tomb. The idea that Jesus was buried close to the place of his crucifixion comes from the Bible. The Gospel of ...

The people and places of the Passion are well documented in the Bible, but pinning down the exact locations and timing of the trials of Jesus in Jerusalem is an ongoing challenge. The Old City of ...

Jesus is then crucified (nailed to a cross alive), the death of a common criminal. He dies and is buried (Good Friday) in a tomb where his body lies throughout the next day (Holy Saturday).

While archaeologists overwhelmingly support the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the historical site of Jesus’s burial, the Garden Tomb continues to attract Protestant worshippers. This deep dive ...

Completed in the 1500s in Venice, confiscated and brought to France by Napoleon’s troops in 1797, the extravagant artwork depicts Jesus Christ ... frieze from the tomb of Princess Nefertiabet.

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided for the Apostles out of her own resources. A Renaissance (c.