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?

Police checkpoints and permit systems now control access to key Christian sites. Attacks on the ... plates lining the streets near Damascus Gate. "Jerusalem can divide us, Jerusalem can unite ...

Jewish leaders around the world expressed outrage this weekend after the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a major figure in Jewish history and mysticism, was desecrated in Damascus, Syria. The Alliance ...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attended Easter prayers early Sunday morning at the Garden Tomb outside the Old City of Jerusalem ... yards north of the Damascus Gate in the eastern ...

Three weeks ago, I was in Jerusalem and walked through the Damascus Gate as the city prepared for ... Stillness rules the rock-hewn tomb. That, though, is not the end of the story.

The Garden Tomb, north of the Jerusalem Old City’s Damascus Gate near the American Colony Hotel, is believed by many Protestants to be the garden and sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a sunny and crisp Jerusalem winter day, a moderate crowd of vendors with old-fashioned trolleys, women wearing ...

The new map - based on Bible scripture and archaeological evidence - recounts Christ's journey through Jerusalem ... Garden Tomb is outside the Old City walls, near the Damascus Gate.

now remembered as the site of fierce fighting in Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War. It’s a mile and a half north of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. Perhaps someday an excavation will search for siege ...

My investigation based on these data and the topography of northwest Jerusalem in the I ... knoll north of the current Damascus Gate was Golgotha. In 1882-83, Charles George Gordon endorsed this view, ...

He also established in Jerusalem near the Damascus Gate the first industrial flour ... and the Eretz Yisrael series included religious sites, a map, a Zionist flag, the youth camp and agricultural ...

Historic site #13 - Abbasid' Revolution - is located in the Quadrangle of the Persians district, just before the Damascus Gate leading to the Round City. Related map marker ... district in Harbiyah, ...