An ancient Egyptian letter, written roughly 3,300 years ago, has suddenly become the latest flashpoint in a very old argument ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "The ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

The Codex Amiatinus was produced at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow in the 700s.

(RNS) — Bible societies are attempting to understand why, in a time when 90% of the world’s population has access to the Christian sacred text, relatively few consider it a foundation of their lives. ...

Ancient 5,500-year-old workshop 'confirms key part of the Bible' ...

An ancient Christian mosaic from Israel is on public display for the first time at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The sprawling Megiddo Mosaic was discovered in 2005 during a prison ...

An ancient inscription paraphrasing the first two verses of Psalm 86 has been uncovered at a remote site in Israel’s Judean desert, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible has just sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $38 million. The ancient text, written in around 900 AD, is the most complete early copy of the Hebrew Bible. The ...

TERYAYEVO, Russia – As she tried to remove the priceless Bible from its glass case, Moscow University professor Irina Pozdeyeva could barely lift the almost 2,000-page book. The gray-haired scholar ...