A Biblical village where Jesus is said to have performed some of his most famous miracles really existed, and today lies in ruins only a mile from the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists believe. In the ...

On a sweltering Thursday afternoon last month, Prof. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret College drove to el-Araj, an archaeological site on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, hauling buckets, tarps ...

A BIBLICAL ‘miracle’ village were Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed the 5,000 has been dug up, according to a team of archaeologists. The experts are now convinced that the site they’ve ...

The Church of the Apostles, which is said to have been built over the house of Jesus’ disciples Peter and Andrew, has been discovered near Israel’s Sea of Galilee, according to a team of American and ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe they may have discovered the biblical city of Bethsaida, the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles on the shores of the Sea of ...

A wildfire in late July swept through the Betiha Nature Reserve on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, laying bare hundreds of soot-covered mounds that may mark the long-lost village of ...

AFP — Excavations in Israel’s Galilee have uncovered remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew, the dig’s archaeological director said Friday. Mordechai Aviam ...

Excavations in northern Israel resulted in the uncovering of a fishing village that is believed to be the biblical Bethsaida, hometown of Jesus’s apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip according to the ...

A BIBLICAL ‘miracle’ village were Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed the 5,000 has been dug up, according to a team of archaeologists. The experts are now convinced that the site they’ve ...

An aerial view of the excavation site in northern Israel. (Photo by Zachary Wong) JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe they may have discovered the biblical city of ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misidentified the college associated with the excavation team. JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe ...