A much grander account appears in an ancient Christian legend that offers a first-person narrative of the coming of Jesus from the Magi themselves. Brent Landau, a biblical scholar at the ...

In fact, there's no evidence in the Gospels that the Magi were kings ... but it wasn't until the early third century, when Christian writer Tertullian referred to them as "almost kings," that ...

it is the official commemoration of the arrival of the Magi and is one of Christianity’s oldest holidays. Roman Catholics celebrate Epiphany on January 6, and Orthodox Christian faiths celebrate ...

Gentile da Fabriano’s “Adoration of the Magi” at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence depicts the journey of the three kings (Melchior, Balthazar and Caspar) to pay homage to the newborn Christ ...

That is not to commend astrology for itself: some early Christian commentators saw the coming of Christ as the destruction of pagan magic, and the Magi’s gifts as tributes of a defeated enemy. But ...