The burial cave became a pilgrimage destination after local Christians identified it as Salome’s burial place in the Byzantine era, Firer said. Salome (right) and the midwife "Emea" (left), bathing ...

Recent archaeological findings in Jerusalem appear to match the biblical description of Jesus' tomb. The exact location, as described in the Gospel of John, has been revealed by architects working at ...

Nine years after Jesus Christ's tomb in Jerusalem was opened for the first time in 500 years, discoveries continue to shed ...

“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”—John 19:41 As a literary device, this description of the burial place of ...

This Sunday, hundreds of millions of Christians will celebrate their holiest day of the year. Easter is the day that Christians all over the world celebrate their belief in the bodily resurrection of ...

The Orthodox Christian ceremony, which is attended by Catholics and other Christians, as well, has been held continuously since at least 1106. The "Holy Fire" is passed from inside Christ's tomb to ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a violent ...

A team of archaeologists has unearthed artifacts from an ancient Jewish burial cave associated with Salome, who according to some Christian traditions was a midwife at the Nativity of Jesus. The cave ...

For an archaeologist turned journalist like me, ever mindful that entire cultures rose and fell and left few traces of their time on Earth, searching an ancient landscape for shards of a single life ...