Most people picture Jesus’ tomb as a small, empty chamber with a single stone bench, but archaeology tells a very different story. First-century tombs around Jerusalem were multi-person family ...

Jesus, in the Christian tradition, does not have a burial place because he rose up to Heaven, but for three days he lay in a tomb outside Jerusalem. Recently, some 50 scientists, workers, priests, ...

JERUSALEM — In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the weather gets really bad, and the Roman guards need to leave their post in front of Jesus' tomb, there's always Cornelius, ...

JERUSALEM — At times, the sounds of hammers and chisels nearly drown out the sounds of prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City, where the structure known as the Edicule, or ...

Jesus' tomb is to be officially reopened at a ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City Jesus’ tomb is to be officially reopened at a ceremony in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday after a nine month and $4 ...

Since the 1970s, hundreds of tombs and thousands of ossuaries, or ancient bone boxes, have been uncovered in the holy land. But one tomb unearthed in Talpiot in 1980 is being looked at differently now ...

In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the ...