As all these discoveries show, the land’s buried secrets have the power to transform our understanding of history, faith, and ...

Only 11 ships from the Iron Age had been previously found in the Mediterranean; discovery provides evidence of maritime trade ...

An Iron Age temple complex discovered near Jerusalem is shedding new light on an ancient Biblical city. The temple complex, which dates to the late 10th and early ninth centuries B.C., was discovered ...

Archaeologists discovered a nearly 2,800-year-old dam near Jerusalem's Pool of Siloam, the biblical site where Jesus healed a ...

An exhibition featuring fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls — the oldest known copies of biblical texts — will open at the ...

Israeli archaeologists announced the historic discovery of remnants of biblical texts in Israel on Tuesday. Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments, ...

Forty-six years ago Israeli archaeologists discovered a charred lump of parchment in the ark of an ancient synagogue near the Dead Sea. They couldn’t unfold it without destroying the burnt scroll but ...

It seems too good to be true, but two too-good-to-be-true archaeological finds about the Bible have popped up in less than three months. Are they not only good but true? It will take considerable time ...

In an update to the 2002 book "Excavating Jesus," Christian scholar John Dominic Crossan and archaeologist Jonathan Reed rank the top 10 biblical archaeological discoveries. 1. The James Ossuary: ...

Nina Burleigh is the author of "Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in The Holy Land." Israeli authorities called it “the fraud of the century”: fakes passed off as archaeological ...