The Israeli Police said on Thursday that 3,000 officers would be deployed in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan as ...

The Western Wall, the only remnant of a retaining wall encircling the Temple Mount, was built by Herod the Great in the first century and is the holiest site where Jews can freely pray.

PALESTINE (and Its Environs) during the Lifetimes of Jesus & Paul; mostly ruled by the Herodian Dynasty: GALILEE - part of the Kingdom of Herod the ... site of the Temple, thus the center of ...

The Old City is home to many of Jerusalem's most sought-after attractions, including the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Temple Mount ... Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Lent 2 in this Year C is Luke 13.31–35, and once again the lectionary does us something of ...

It is pleasing to think we have candles burning in our name on the altar of God, and if the Jewish people yearly made offerings to their temple ... when Herod sought to kill Him; (3) the three ...

Jewish historian Josephus recounts how Herod engaged in a massive building project to renovate the Temple in Jerusalem. It is no wonder that one of Jesus’ disciples pointed out the magnificence of ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso ...

After 1,700 years the first ancient Greek temple opened in Arcadia, Peloponnese over the weekend. Hundreds of people attended ...

Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...