Kiryat Shmuel is shaped by religious leadership, urban planning under the British Mandate, and the trials of Israel’s early ...

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ancestors.

Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and multilingual graffiti.

Mysterious owners of the artifacts, possibly a mother and child, might have moved to Byzantine village in the Negev from Egypt or the Horn of Africa ...

Video. Perched on a cliffside above the Aegean Sea, the Monastery of Simonos Petra is home to one of Orthodoxy’s most diverse ...

According to Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who specializes ... our region from the late Second Temple through Byzantine periods, the capital discovered at Motza ...

Husband and wife duo Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson write about the secrets that persist in historic Palestine's ...

From secular delights at the clubs and beaches of Tel Aviv, to the walls and shrines of Jerusalem sacred to three religions, ...

Asceticism in Christianity as practiced for centuries can comprise an array of devotional practices from fasting to ...

The Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. This dazzling piece of architectural brilliance is one of the oldest and most revered Islamic monuments. Adorned with intricate ...

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, ...

In a seemingly analogous (but not strictly corresponding) fashion, the Hasidic tzaddik distributes the leftovers of his third ...