Recent archaeological excavations in Israel have revealed a rare find: early Christian art from around 1,500 years ago. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

Early Christian art often shows Jesus holding what looks like a wand. Modern viewers assume magic, but ancient audiences saw authority. The object mirrored symbols used by Roman leaders and biblical ...

This Christmas season, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly known as “the Met,” is displaying one of the oldest Madonna and Christ Child icons in existence along with other pieces of ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have brought a striking new face of early Christianity into view, uncovering a rare fresco that shows Jesus clean-shaven and youthful rather than bearded and severe. The image ...