The large body of water is the Dead Sea, ... the Madaba mosaic is the earliest map of the Holy Land. (Tower of Babel featured on ancient synagogue mosaic.) Madaba Mosaic Map, ...

The Muriel and Jeremy Josse Collection of Holy Land Maps consists of 253 maps that date predominantly from 1870 to 1923. ... Medieval maps served primarily to illustrate religious or literary texts ...

Renaissance Europe’s fascination with the Middle East and the budding science of cartography is the subject of the Mitchell Gallery’s “Ancient Maps and Views of the Holy Land from the ...

The Holy Land is full of famous sacred tombs, from the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron to the tomb of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But there are also ancient Muslim tombs.

One of the major features of physical geography in the Holy Land is its diversity within a small region. Jerusalem is 2500 feet above sea level and has the walled city, which within its borders ...

Madrid, Spain, Aug 7, 2005 / 22:00 pm. In what has been determined the largest pilgrimage ever from the Spanish region of Valencia, more than 180 Spaniards arrived in the Holy Land on August 8 to ...

According to Reuters, Hamas posessess rockets that are capable of a 150-mile range, though with limited accuracy. Although these rockets could theoretically make it to holy sites in Jerusalem and ...