The high-profile trial of two Israeli antiquities experts accused of faking a burial box containing the remains of Jesus' brother and other priceless artifacts faced a humiliating collapse Wednesday ...

A tomb in a suburb of Jerusalem excavated in 1980 contains bone boxes with names of some of Jesus' family members. Some historians believe this tomb may have contained the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, ...

An air-conditioned portal to the promised land will soon open beside a Dallas multiplex, starring a controversial artifact once presented as the first archaeological link to the historical Jesus.

Israel’s Antiquities Authority begins investigation of James ossuary, wants Joash tablet A first-century limestone box that may have held the bones of James, the brother of Jesus and leader of the ...

For nine years, it was the centerpiece of the Israel Antiquities Authority's (IAA) campaign against forgers and smugglers. Now it sits in a warehouse near Jerusalem—its future uncertain. It's a small ...

— -- "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Those words inscribed on the so-called James ossuary, a stone burial box that reportedly held the bones of the brother of Jesus, set off a frenzy ...

EIN KEREM, Israel _ The “corpse” is shivering ever so slightly on the cold and gray winter day as green herbs are piled on his naked chest and his toes are rubbed with olive oil. “Don’t breathe, don’t ...

Criminal indictments brought in Jerusalem against four men, including the antiquities collector linked to the James ossuary, or bone box, have prompted museums and devotees of biblical archaeology to ...

Israel’s archaeological experts declared on Wednesday that an ancient limestone burial box, which bears an inscription suggesting it held the remains of Jesus’ brother James, is a modern forgery. When ...

Since their emergence a decade ago, immersive exhibitions have been pitched as the ideal vehicle to tell humanity’s greatest stories. Visitors have been ushered inside the kaleidoscopic mind of ...

— -- Medieval pilgrims would have understood the throngs who crowded Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum to see the James Ossuary. Only six years ago, the stone box inscribed "James, Son of Joseph, ...