Experts have used cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover concealed linguistic patterns and pinpoint the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

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 ...

Update | A 2,700-year-old clay seal was discovered near the plaza of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem five years after digging through the site started. The ancient find may have once ...

The mysterious disappearance of priceless fragments of ancient biblical papyrus has led to the arrest of an Oxford University classics professor on suspicion of theft and fraud. Dirk Obbink, an ...

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 ...