Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

As it does every year, Israel is preparing to welcome Christian ... Gethsemane means “olive press” in Greek, and in Jesus’ time this was indeed an olive grove. Some very old olive trees are still ...

Israel Antiquities Authority The ancient jug Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority Impressive Underground Olive Press for Oil Production in Yatir Forest Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities ...

Located near Serpa, in the gently rolling hills of Alentejo in southeastern Portugal, his 30-hectare olive grove is part of ... Resting in the shade of an ancient olive tree that has endured ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says "many surprises" from the site are in the works.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 1,200-year-old clay jug adorned with camel decorations in an underground cave in southern Israel's Yatir ... also housed an ancient olive press, where ...

Alongside the olive press, an ancient Byzantine-period synagogue discovered earlier at the site has undergone extensive conservation by experts from the Conservation Department of the Israel ...

Modern Israel mirrors the emerging state of ancient Israel just after the death of Yehoshua (Joshua), an era of both vulnerability and divine testing. While I was studying Shoftim, these two ...

Now, the discovery of 2,000 year-old olive trees and grapevines are believed ... Professor Francesca Romana Stasolla told the Times of Israel. “The Gospel mentions a green area between the ...

An ancient papyrus found in the excavation in the Judean Desert, Israel, March 2025 (credit: JUDEAN DESERT SURVEY UNIT, ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY) “The discoveries are exciting and even ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...

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