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 ...

They believed faith would carry them to the Holy Land—but the world wasn’t kind to innocence. Most never made it home.

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

Archaeologists believe the Biblical meeting occurred in the 'Upper Room' of a two-story house with limestone walls and a red, ...

Once the heart of a vast empire and now a crossroads between East and West, Hungary stands as a testament to Europe’s layered ...

Archaeologists believe they have identified the house where the Last Supper took place in Jerusalem - and the two-story building remarkably still stands in the city after 2,000 years ...

Texas is a land where BBQ isn’t just a meal, it’s a way of life. Smoky pits burn day and night, and the scent of slow-cooked ...

It’s no mystery that the world’s greatest riddles still fascinate and their invariably spectacular locations all await the ...