The uncovered tombs, which were found to be made of marble, have a lot to do with Joseph of Arimathea — the biblical figure ...

Francesca Romana Stasolla, lead archaeologist, told The Times of Israel: 'The Gospel mentions a green area between the Calvary and the tomb, and we identified these cultivated fields' The discovery ...

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 ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:59-61: Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great ...