Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle.

Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem.

The story flips back and forth between decades, from the Ottoman Empire era to the days of the ... and chronicles the dynamics of pre-state Jerusalem, including tensions between its Jewish ...

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... thousands of years of social tradition. Trouble in Jerusalem In around 33 AD, Jesus traveled to the city of ...

The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community worshipped at its own synagogue, the temple in Jerusalem remained the spiritual center of their worship. The temple had been rebuilt three times.

Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, Jerusalem’s signs prominently featured Ottoman Turkish (written in Arabic script) alongside English and occasionally French. Hebrew was largely absent.