The oldest map of the Holy Land is actually a magnificent mosaic. Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of ...

According to Reuters, Hamas posessess rockets that are capable of a 150-mile range, though with limited accuracy. Although these rockets could theoretically make it to holy sites in Jerusalem and ...

The Holy Land is full of famous sacred tombs, from the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron to the tomb of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But there are also ancient Muslim tombs.

The Muriel and Jeremy Josse Collection of Holy Land Maps, which consists of more than 250 maps of late 19th- and early 20th-century Palestine and the African continent, as well as one 16th-century map ...

The Muriel and Jeremy Josse Collection of Holy Land Maps consists of 253 maps that date predominantly from 1870 to 1923. The majority of the maps are of late-19th- and early-twentieth-century ...

Renaissance Europe’s fascination with the Middle East and the budding science of cartography is the subject of the Mitchell Gallery’s “Ancient Maps and Views of the Holy Land from the ...

National Library expands cartographic holdings with 400 rare maps Collector Howard Golden donates to world’s largest collection of antique maps of Jerusalem and the Holy Land ...

The "Holy Land" refers to modern-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories and, by some definitions, areas close to them. This part of the world is of great religious importance for Christianity ...

The Holy Land teems with antiquity. But so much of the land’s ancient past, its hallowed temples and shrines, are the subject of heated contemporary debate and contest.