Popular depictions of Jesus' tomb often show a small, single-chamber burial site—but historical evidence suggests something very different. Scholars argue that first-century rock-cut tombs were ...

“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”—John 19:41 As a literary device, this description of the burial place of ...

A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part upon ...

Evolve Studios, a Franklin, Tn.-based production company teamed with Brad Gray, a local pastor, to film a documentary about ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a violent ...

The death and resurrection of Jesus is the most famous underdog story in history. A low-status artisan from Galilee challenged the authorities of his time and ended up dying a brutal and horrifying ...

IZNIK, Turkey — Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.” The painting was ...