Below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter ... Whether Canaanite or crusader, each era gets its scientific due, he insists. There is no doubt that Israeli ...

The Seljuk Turks captured Jerusalem in 1073 ... Indeed, at the beginning of the First Crusade, the Crusaders had to cross an incredibly long distance, all the way to Byzantium and the Levant.

Six hundred days on, those questions still defy comprehension. And those failures—including the inability to bring all the ...

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

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

1981: Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital Baghdad for fear it would be used to make atomic bombs. On the same day, Bjorn Borg wins his 11th and final ...

Here's sixteen tracks, one from each Iron Maiden album that charts a course through the career of the absolutely seminal ...

According to tradition, Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders, brought several drops of Christ's blood from Jerusalem during a ...

Christians and government ­officials have come to blows over demands that churches in a city known as “China’s Jerusalem” ­install surveillance cameras for “anti-terrorism and security ...

Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.