Some 2,000 years ago, olive trees and grapevines likely grew on the land where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ...

Yuval Gadot of the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures ... as the residence of the people of Jerusalem and the Acropolis (the upper city), which was where the palace and ...

A sprawling city today, Jerusalem was nothing but a fortified ridge in the desert when David seized it 3,000 years ago. New excavations are revealing its successive stages of development ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition, Nebuchadrezzar was a tyrant, and Babylon a torment. The king had conquered Jerusalem in the early ...

Twelve of his Jerusalem photographs are currently ... For centuries, European artists had painted the ancient hilltop city in countless religious artworks without ever having seen it.

For most visitors, the highlight of a City of David visit is Hezekiah's Tunnel. The tunnel was ancient Jerusalem's primary source of water, according to the Bible. Today, you can traverse this ...

The Old City is home to many of Jerusalem's most sought-after attractions ... Yet the Old City's winding alleyways and ancient stone plazas allow mixing and mingling among these cultures, making ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem issued an urgent call for Israeli authorities to stop a government plan to seize and ...

Uday Mobarsham, a resident of the northern village of Makr in Israel, planned to carry out an imminent shooting attack on dozens of Israelis, police officers, and tourists in Jerusalem’s Old City.