Tradition and technology at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
The 1833 illustration of the interior of the Church of the Nativity is in the public domain The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was insc
“Behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s Tomb”—nothing!
"Egyptian officials had claimed in 2015 that there was a "90 percent" chance that something was behind the walls of Tutankhamen's tomb."...
China, Buddhism, and trade – copper to soy beans along the new Silk Road
Perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Silk Roads has been their role in bringing cultures and peoples in contact with each other, and...
Renovating a 12th-century New Jerusalem—the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
In 2001, the US Congress authorized the US Department of State to award grants through American embassies to support cultural heritage...
Terracotta warriors on the move—Philadelphia, PA and Richmond, VA
"arms and armor, horse and chariot fittings, ritual bronze vessels, works in gold and silver, jade ornaments, precious jewelry, and...
Many of Mexico’s buildings damaged by recent earthquakes were historic churches
The 16th-century Nuestro Señora de los Remedios in Choluloa, Puebla, Mexico lost two of its domes (2009 photo above by Gerardo Noriega is...
Chartres Cathedral restoration – behold the Black, now White, Madonna
The Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Lady of the Cathedral at Chartres, has been luring large numbers of Christian pilgrims to...
Early evidence of body snatchers at a medieval burial ground in London
Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology have been excavating a burial ground site in London that was the final resting place...
Restoration of Mount Zion Cemetery—“African-Americans were not just slaves in Georgetown"
The Georgetown neighborhood of what is now Washington, DC was founded as a port town 40 years before the nation’s capital was formed....
Roman burial in London, robbed in the 18th century, found recently at construction site
The Roman Empire ruled the southern half of what is now the island of Great Britain from 43 to 410 AD. During this occupation, the Romans...