Excavation work in Turkey’s ancient Olympus revealed intricate mosaic patterns and inscriptions at a church entrance. Known ...

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of "surprising" human remains.

More than three dozen Christian churches founded in Lawrence prior to 1900 will be featured in a new temporary exhibition at ...

The Church of the Apostles, built atop the home of Jesus' first disciples, was believed by many to be merely a myth. But these researchers think they've finally found it after centuries.

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread ...

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the 'house churches' where congregations gathered to worship. The status of women in early Christianity has been ...

New Testament scholar N T Wright recently pushed back on the assumption that Jesus and the apostle Paul expected the world to ...

A scholar of religion and migration writes about the long-standing tensions among Christians regarding their moral obligations to those more or less closely connected to them.

Church in Egyptian Desert Reveals Early Christian Burial Practices A basilica from the 4th century held a surprising number of tombs with women and children, researchers found.

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has a new exhibit showcasing the Megiddo Mosaic, one of the earliest physical evidence of Christianity, on display for first time since being found.

Archaeologists discovered a fourth-century Christian church in Armenia, considered the country’s oldest. Armenia is believed to be the first Christian state in the world after King Tiridates III ...