Israeli police dismiss reports of Jewish settlers burning the Church of St. George in Taybeh, finding no damage to the holy ...

Archaeologists have unearthed Tharais, a mystery Christian settlement in the Middle East that has been hidden away for ...

The archaeological site of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian settlement of Tharais - lost for centuries - has been found in ...

A stunning archaeological breakthrough in the Middle East has brought one of the Holy Land's forgotten cities back into the spotlight. Experts believe they have uncovered the ancient Byzantine-era ...

The war for Africa’s holy land. Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, is in turmoil. by Philip Jenkins in the October 20, ... But this ancient and holy Christian region is fast becoming a very troubled place ...

Two parchments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an ancient inscription believed to be the first mention of the House of David outside of biblical text, the heel bone of a person believed to have been ...

Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land. PBS Airdate: November 23, 2004. NARRATOR: The great Judean Desert: south of Jerusalem and west of the Dead Sea; the land of the ancient prophets of the Hebrew ...

A geographer can help others imagine what a far-away place looked like at a given point in time.Research behind a new book by a Terre Haute geography expert could help ...

An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and ... all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, ...

A 1,500-year-old wine factory the size of a modern-day football field has been unearthed in Israel, showing how vintners met demand for high quality white wine popular throughout the ancient world.

Find the complete program transcript, including credits for the NOVA program Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land, originally broadcast on PBS on November 23, 2004.