For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Two tombs, one ancient question. This video explores the long-standing debate between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb as the true burial place of Jesus. While the Holy Sepulchre ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

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

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 ...

There laid they Jesus.' A team from Sapienza University ... Others argue that the Garden Tomb, another ancient burial site in Jerusalem, better matches biblical descriptions.

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 ...

Mary Magdalene's experience at the empty tomb highlights the transition from grief to hope. Jesus' resurrection offers a "Before ... tighter around her slumped shoulders as she entered the garden, ...

“Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ... Many Christians believe the church is where Jesus was crucified and buried ...

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 ...

In the Apostle John’s account starting in Chapter 19, we read about Jesus being flogged and brutally ... Mary Magdalene went to the tomb ... .” It was still dark because she was out before ...