He also names Persia, unequivocally understood as modern-day Iran, which even in Ezekiel’s time was a formidable eastern ...

A room and a building in one of the world's ancient cities boast an incredible influence on biblical history, or is this just a medieval hypothesis?

Pope Leo XIV received on June 17 at the Vatican the bishops of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI, by its Italian acronym), ...

Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

Country names often fade into the background of a map and eventually become fixed and obvious. But the truth is, they’re anything but. These names are often rooted in ancient riddles, happy accidents, ...

The thrill of treasure hunting has captivated human imagination for centuries. The idea that hidden riches could be lying ...

By then, its significance was clear: A cartographic masterpiece, the Madaba mosaic is the earliest map of the Holy Land. (Tower of Babel featured on ancient synagogue mosaic.) Madaba Mosaic Map ...

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...

Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais, the town had largely vanished from memory, surviving only in historical ...