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

Here’s how it works. A cave in Israel said to be the burial place of Salome, Jesus' midwife, has yielded more of its secrets, according to archaeologists who have unearthed inscriptions and ...

In fact, Jesus' midwife Salome may not have been laid to rest there at all, the scientists behind the study claim. Undoubtedly, the name 'Salome' is inscribed in the cave in rock, interpreted as ...

An archaeologist has shared recently gathered evidence that Khirbet Qana, an excavation site in Israel, is the true location ...

surrounding a cave that for centuries was considered to be the burial site of Salome, the midwife of Jesus, while they prepare to open it to the public. The cave—located roughly 30 miles ...

Ahead of opening a burial cave dedicated to Salome, the midwife of Jesus, to the public, archaeologists have recently uncovered a number of priceless artifacts from its courtyard, the Israeli ...

Many historians have long believed that the original cave, identified a few centuries after Jesus’ death as his tomb, was obliterated ages ago. But an archaeologist accompanying the restoration ...

First came a prolonged dig led by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) that labelled the site as the Salome Cave, on account of the belief that it served as the resting place for Jesus’s midwife.

A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds.The idea ...