Researchers at the ruined desert city of Shivta in southern Israel have discovered a painting of the face of Jesus Christ, thought to have been made in the sixth century A.D.

AN ancient set of lead tablets showing the earliest portrait of Jesus Christ have proved to be around 2,000 years old, according to experts. The metal "pages", held together like a ring binder ...

AN ancient set of lead tablets showing the earliest portrait of Jesus Christ have proved to be around 2,000 years old, according to experts. The metal "pages", held together like a ring binder ...

After 2,000 years buried within a cave in the Holy Land, the features are barely distinct as that of a human face. But Bible historians are trying to determine whether this is the first ever ...

The earliest Christian artwork from third and fourth century Syria and Rome shows Jesus as youthful, clean-shaven, and holding a staff. In many of these he just looks like a traditional Roman male.

People have always imagined Jesus in their own image. It isn't correct to say that the earliest portraits show him in the style of Zeus - the earliest known portrait is from the early 3rd century ...

After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of Christians in the first century may have been women.

Random House, 296 pp., $27 At the outset of “Zealot,” Reza Aslan bluntly states his objective.“This book is an attempt to reclaim, as much as possible, the Jesus of history, the Jesus before ...