A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

Orenstein emphasized that excavations like that of the Pilgrimage Road put biblical stories into historical context.