SEBASTIA, West Bank (AP) -- The ancient town of Sebastia is one of the major archaeological sites of the Holy Land, with its overlapping layers of history dating back nearly 3,000 years. But today the ...

Archaeological endeavors can be flashpoints in the deeply conflicted Holy Land, but some are hopeful that uncovering shared history can contribute to peace. Franciscan Father Stéphane Milovitch ...

Prehistoric Chronological Framework / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Introduction to the Second Edition / Kent V. Flannery -- I. Approaches to the Past. 1. Social Change and the Archaeology of the Holy Land / ...

From Christ’s ‘city on a hill’ to the ‘pilgrim’s road’ from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, archaeological endeavors in Israel hold historical promise for contemporary believers. Visitors will ...

Zertal, 60, has a poetic affinity for the land he has spent so much time surveying. Talking to local Bedouin shepherds in Arabic about place names and checking them against biblical references, he has ...

TEL AVIV - A leading archaeology journal has effectively barred submissions by Israelis on Judea and Samaria unless they "have cooperated with the relevant Palestinian authorities," in what analysts ...

"In the heart of the ancient Near East (modern Middle East) and at a crossroads between once mighty powers such as Assyria to the east and Egypt to the south is a tiny piece of land -- roughly the ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

Many Palestinians are understandably skeptical of any research that links biblical events to land they feel is rightfully theirs. “In Israel, biblical archaeology was used to justify illegal ...