JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription “Bethlehem,” the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe ...

Ancient shard offers ... A 2,700-year-old clay shard with an ancient Hebrew inscription mentioning the city of Bethlehem has been ... just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Silvia Starinieri, a young restoration technician, was slowly passing a thermographic camera over the smooth plaster walls of ... Constantine’s ancient fourth-century ...

One cannot look at the enormous security wall “without being a bit shaken ... quiet fields of Bethlehem.” The ancient city represents “ground zero for a new birth,” Sadleir says ...

Some scholars argue that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace arose from the desire to link him to an ancient Hebrew prophecy ... sections of a wall around the village, and a two ...

Shmuel Achituv, an expert in ancient scripts at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University who did not participate in the dig, said the discovery was the oldest reference to Bethlehem ever found outside of ...