The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "The ...

For just one year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington will host a rare exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which feature ...

An extremely rare medieval Bible has been re-discovered and returned to the cathedral it was taken from 500 years ago. The Bible was written in the late 13th century, according to Canterbury Cathedral ...

E xperts have uncovered hidden language patterns and identified likely authors of some of the Bible's oldest books – using ...

In a room of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the mountains of Sinai, a chance discovery in 1975 forever changed the study of biblical texts. The Egyptian monastery of Saint Catherine holds the world’s ...

WASHINGTON — The genocide carried out by the Islamic State group (ISIS) has sought to wipe out the Christian peoples of Syria and Iraq from their ancient homelands, but also to destroy the historical ...

JERUSALEM --Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than what some scholars think. Using handwriting ...

Questions about the provenance of Green’s $30 million collection, which he began amassing in 2009, have plagued the museum for years. In 2017, Hobby Lobby returned 5,500 smuggled Iraqi artifacts and ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible handed over an ancient, handwritten gospel to the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday, the latest move in its ongoing effort to shore up its reputation after ...

Until about a century ago virtually all knowledge of the ancient Near East stemmed ultimately from the Bible. Nearly all history of Egyptian, Babylonian, Hittite and Persian empires and monarchs was ...

It is easy for us to underestimate the aura that surrounded a written text in the ancient world. As you read this review, you are performing something that once seemed like magic: converting signs on ...