Ossuary owner charged with forgery. The front line of biblical archaeology in Israel has moved from the excavation to the courtroom. On December 29, Israeli authorities charged four Israelis and a ...

The James Ossuary, a first-century carved limestone box, has been described as 'the most significant item ever found' from the time of Christ. The 2,000-year-old ossuary made global headlines in 2002 ...

It is smooth to the touch, cool and solid. It is worn, but not so much that its extraordinary message cannot be read. The small limestone box, the color of sand, nearly 2,000 years old, sits on its ...

Longtime Israeli antiquities collector Oded Golan has brought 350 of his most notable artifacts from the Holy Land to Atlanta’s Pullman Yards for display through the end of February. Golan, a ...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Two Wyoming scholars helped cast doubt on a burial box purported to have been that of Jesus' brother. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced recently that the inscription on ...

JERUSALEM -- In a souvenir shop on the Via Dolorosa, an antiquities dealer studied a photo of what may -- just may -- be the oldest archaeological link to Jesus. Then he shrugged. It's quite possible, ...

The first group of experts heralded it as one of archaeology's greatest discoveries, a burial box inscribed with the earliest reference to Jesus ever found. But after a closer look, another group of ...