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An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...