Who were the seven sleepers? What does Christianity say about them? Does Islam mention them as well? How does the Islamic ...

The earliest followers of Jesus were not persecuted; they were prosecuted. This is the crucial point Jeremy Williams makes in Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles. While the distinction sounds ...

Ancient underground tomb yields rare fresco of clean-shaven Jesus with Roman attributes. Discovery highlights early Christian ...

A newly documented tomb painting shows Jesus as the “Good Shepherd”, a youthful, beardless figure from a period when Christian imagery was still forming and often had to stay discreet.

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

Early Christians Sheridan proposes that ancient Rome was “more similar to today’s world than you might think”. But in drawing parallels between the ancient world and ours, he erroneously downplays how ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a significant early Christian fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" with ...

Archaeologists at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik found an early Christian fresco inside a tomb that depicts a young, clean ...