Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started celebrating his birth.

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

With around 80 works believed to survive today, here's our top 10 of paintings by Caravaggio: the ultimate Baroque Bad Boy.

Throughout the history of Christianity, the authorship of the New Testament was credited mostly to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But hidden behind these men are unnamed coauthors and ...

Nimrod, the first biblical king after the floods, has been the object of mystery and intrigue to historians and biblical ...

For the next several months, some of the oldest religious texts in history will be on display in D.C. at the Museum of the Bible.

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...

What do we know about the legendary Egyptian King Sesostris? Was he a real person? According to evidence, he was.

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...