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 ...

One of the pits of the olive trees, whose grape seeds and pollen caught in centuries of rock have already begun to draw a ...

Can a few grape-pollen and olive pits help transform the perceived knowledge people have about the most visited church in ...

The Kimbell Art Museum presents its newest exhibition, The Holy Sepulcher: Treasures From the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem from March 15 – June 28.

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says “many surprises” from the site are in the works.

Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, one of the holiest places in the world for Christians and an important pilgrimage site since the fourth century, is revealing more of its secrets. Ongoing ...

During the Crusades, the order’s knights were charged with protecting significant Christian sites in the Holy Land and ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Christians from around the world prayed for Pope Francis at a solemn Mass on Wednesday at Jerusalem's centuries-old Church of the Holy Sepulchre following the pontiff's passing ...

The large wooden doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre look more like a dam holding back a flood of pilgrims seeking to glimpse the spot where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians prayed together Sunday inside the Jerusalem church that symbolizes their divisions, calling their historic ...