By The Associated Press Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. The attack comes ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Crowning Jerusalem’s sacred mount, the Dome of the Rock is a place of both prayer and protest. Extensive restoration and archaeological research are uncovering fresh clues to the shrine’s origins.

Below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, Father Samuel Aghoyan views a quarry that was used as a Jewish cemetery during the time of Jesus. A nearby rock outcrop ...