While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some military leaders who really ...

No matter how brutal they become, Israel's far-right agitators cannot erase what history, geography and faith have forged ...

I cannot believe we’ve reached 600 days of war—600 days with our hostages still trapped in terror tunnels. I can’t fathom ...

Palestinian shopkeepers are closing early as ultranationalist Jewish teenagers fill the streets of Jerusalem's Old City for ...

An F.B.I. affidavit reported that the suspect, Elias Rodriguez, allegedly made comments supporting Palestine when arrested ...

Two staff members from the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event ...

President Trump may have gotten his half-brained idea to reopen and expand the infamous Alcatraz prison from a movie that aired on WLRN this past weekend.

outside the Old City of Jerusalem. The site of Jesus’s Last Supper itself likely originally held a synagogue. But after what Heritage Daily describes as “cycles of destruction and ...

Archaeological excavations beneath the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, initiated in 2022 as part of a major floor restoration, revealed that the site was originally a stone quarry outside Jerusalem ..

A stone quarry outside the walls of Jerusalem, later abandoned and converted ... was incorporated into the Holy Sepulcher during the Crusader period. It is accessed by a staircase to the right ...

In John 19:41, the Bible states that Jesus was crucified and buried near a garden just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Now ... and other items dating from the Iron Age to the Crusades. Recently, ...

Originally a quarry outside the walls of Jerusalem during the time of Jesus ... in the 11th century. During the Crusader period, the church was renovated and given the layout and style it has today.