A ceramic bowl discovered off the coast of Egypt may contain the world's first reference to Christ. The so-called 'Jesus Cup' was unearthed in 2008 by a team led by French marine archaeologist Franck ...

Trying to imagine what everyday life looked like during Jesus’s time is pretty difficult. It was thousands of years ago, ...

But how and why would that torturous event and extreme sorrow associated with the death of the messiah affect eternity in a positive way? Why should Easter be a joyful time? The answer is neither ...

In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text ...

The discovery of an ancient skeleton in northern Italy could shed new light on brutal Roman crucifixions. There is relatively little archaeological evidence of crucifixions, the method used to execute ...

An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history. Harvard divinity professor Karen King unveiled the 4th-Century Coptic ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Scientists have discovered the oldest surviving copy of a written account of the childhood of Jesus in a forgotten and decaying manuscript. Papyrologists, scientists who study ...

For the love of Christ, someone stop these amateur artists. Another botched restoration effort claimed an innocent religious relic. Like in the case of the failed Jesus fresco and Tintin St. George, ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient ...

Editorial Page Editor Rudy Bush writes that America's public discourse must move away from mob mentality toward reason and virtue. Michael Hogue Less than a century before Pontius Pilate washed his ...