Archaeologists excavating at a medieval cemetery in Denmark have found the burials of 77 people who were early Christians in ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old synagogue in Israel's Golan Heights, revealing new evidence of ancient ...

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the ...

Archaeologists discovered a Byzantine-era ascetic’s remains wrapped in chains near Jerusalem, dating back to 350–650 A.D. Using dental enamel protein analysis, researchers identified the likely ...

When most people think of Heaven, they imagine clouds, angels, and golden gates in the sky. But early Christian mystics didn’t see Heaven as a place you reached after death, they saw it as a spiritual ...

Sometime in the 8th century C.E., the Christian community that had been living for hundreds of years on Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Arabian Gulf, packed up and walked away. At a time when relations ...

A rare cross was recently uncovered in the United Arab Emirates, shedding light on Christian history during the early Islamic era. The discovery, made at Sir Bani Yas Island in the Persian Gulf, was ...