In Jordan, a 50km pilgrimage trail follows the path of a 4th-Century nun who journeyed through the Holy Land – centuries before Spain's famed Camino de Santiago.

By the Roman and Byzantine periods ... an authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. However, the 20th century brought increasing hostility. After Israel’s creation in 1948, the Syrian ...

According to the Bible, it is the last place Moses gazed ... Pilgrims can explore Byzantine and Roman remains of chapels, churches and monasteries, along with the cave of John the Baptist, and ...

The Hebrews, who, according to the Bible, spent 40 years wandering this ... the thick walls of the Monastery of St. Katherine, built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian 1,437 years ago, come ...

From a.d. 380, when the emergent faith became the official religion of the Roman Empire, until the Arab conquest of the empire’s Byzantine successors ... read the Bible and wash their clothes.

The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...