The Biblical narrative has always told a great story. A Semitic monotheistic people are enslaved and brutally mistreated in ancient Egypt. Against all odds they break free, return to their ancestral ...

BAGHDAD – British archaeologists said Thursday they have unearthed a sprawling complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham. The structure, thought to be about ...

Nina Burleigh is the author of "Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in The Holy Land." Israeli authorities called it “the fraud of the century”: fakes passed off as archaeological ...

NABLUS, West Bank – What happens when biblical history and modern turmoil collide? Archaeologists in tumultuous Palestine are digging up the ruins of Shekem, where Abraham once stopped, Jacob once ...

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 ...

New research revealing when camels were domesticated by humans shows that many depictions of camels in scripture may be off by hundreds of years. Renee Montagne talks to Carol Meyers, a professor of ...

Jerusalem Post / Archaeology Bible Scenes of Abraham and Isaac revealed after church’s 16-year restoration Restored wall paintings now show Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and scenes of the devil’s ...

The aramaic inscription on the ancient limestone burial box says simply, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Unveiled a year ago, those few words on a prosaic 2,000-year-old ossuary launched a ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. -- Fort Rucker youth were given the chance to take an archaeological trip back to biblical times to learn about the history of their faith during an event that had them digging for ...