Christian tradition depicts Jesus’ tomb as empty and solitary, but archaeology tells a different story. Tombs in Jerusalem were family complexes filled with multiple bodies. Early gospel writers ...

Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden beside a rock-cut tomb, reviving a centuries-old debate about where Jesus of ...

A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part upon ...