Lifshits is a co-author with IAA archaeologist Nir-Shimshon Paran of the study in the latest issue of the IAA journal 'Atiqot ...

Constantine’s men tore the pagan temple down, and discovered a tomb cut into a limestone cave ... Garden Tomb Or The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre? While generations of Christians believe that ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ancient tomb ... burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the Gospels.

A cave in Israel said to be the burial place of Salome, Jesus' midwife ... in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic' "The family tomb attests that its owners were a family of high status ...

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.” Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000 year-old ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre may have a shrine, but it is widely believed that Jesus Christ was actually buried and then resurrected in the Garden Tomb. Located just a short walk from the Old ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ancient tomb ... burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the Gospels.

The Gospels, particularly John's account, depict the despair of Jesus' death and the subsequent joy of his resurrection. Mary Magdalene's experience at the empty tomb highlights the ... shoulders as ...

Far more realistic is John’s much simpler account: "In the early morning darkness, Mary Magdalene went all alone to weep for Jesus at the borrowed garden tomb. Horrified to find it open and ...

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.” Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000 year-old ...