The excavation process began during church renovations in 2022, but it's only recently that "evidence of the presence of olive trees and grapevines from around 2,000 years ago" has been found.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient garden beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which confirms the Bible's account of Jesus' burial site ...

A video obtained by CNN shows two young ultra-Orthodox men spitting at, swearing at and insulting a Christian priest near the Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening.

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

A family of religious Jews walks at the beginning of Armenian Quarter Street, the entry point to the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem in April 2024. Behind them stands the complex of the Tower of ...

The settlement period ended with a massive conflagration identified as the Babylonian destruction in 586 B.C., which is described in both the Bible and Neo-Babylonian records.

The Bible tells the story of an angel sent by God to smite Assyrian soldiers as they slept to prevent a siege on Jerusalem. Getty Images “This appears to be the site of Sennacherib’s camp from ...

Chanting, dancing and waving blue-and-white Israeli flags, the marchers made their way through the Old City’s Damascus Gate into largely Palestinian areas of Jerusalem’s Old City.