A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in Aigai, Greece.

While carrying out excavations at Tikal National Park in Guatemala — what was once the center of the Maya civilization — ...

Columnist David Marcus writes that the Left has stealthily stamped out the use of AD to describe the last two millennia as ...

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests the presence of a Jewish community ...

Someone who sins is meant to bring something of himself – his heart and emotions – and to experience a sense of closeness to ...

Until now, archaeologists believed the helmet made its way to Britain from Sweden. But a new discovery casts doubt on the ...

Mike Aquilina gives us a fine work of Christianity’s history that deserves the attention of many readers besides this one.

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

Even before the coming of Christianity, the wells were known as sacred sites to those who worshiped pagan gods. They were then ... Irish people visiting the ancient holy wells of Saint Patrick.