The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

Archaeologists and scientists are converging on one of Christianity’s most contested questions: what really happened to Jesus at the moment of his death and burial. Fresh excavations at the ...

Christian tradition depicts Jesus’ tomb as empty and solitary, but archaeology tells a different story. Tombs in Jerusalem were family complexes filled with multiple bodies. Early gospel writers ...