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

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this ...

During the Byzantine period, Jerusalem blossomed into a major religious hub, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. Monasteries served not only as spiritual centers but also as refuges ...

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 ...

Originally built in the 2nd century BCE, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 3rd century CE and subsequently rebuilt.

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.

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By Bedross Der Matossian In a stunning escalation that threatens to upend centuries of sacred stewardship, the Armenian ...

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.

'Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 229-240 (12 pages) A unique lead seal of the Byzantine Patriarch of Jerusalem, Leontios II (1176–1184/85), was discovered in a ...