From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Researchers used AI to analyze the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible, discovering three distinct writing styles that ...

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Archaeologists might have discovered a major milestone in the quest to prove Noah’s Ark’s existence — pottery fragments near ...

One of the surprising joys of writing my latest book has been to discover that my co-author’s wife was set to publish a book too — and the topic is one that I’ve searched for years to find. And I mean ...

As you can read in Kugel’s fabulous book, How To Read the Bible, archeology has falsified essentially the entire Torah. There is no evidence of any patriarchs, no evidence of a flood. More ...

A dozen second-graders in Kim Kihm’s Bible class watched slide shows about the Ten Commandments on the classroom’s smart board and scrolled through Bible passages on their iPads. While reading about ...

Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?

In Jeremiah 15, God tells the prophet that "I will make [Jerusalem] an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the Earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem." ...

People tended to treat Charlie Smith’s purported age as just one more of his wild tales. In 1972 he claimed to be 124, a slave-ship survivor and a personal friend of Jesse James. In fact, loveable ...