Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

The remains of the ancient Christian building were found at the Artaxata site in the Ararat Plain. The octagonal church at Artaxata had a floor made of mortar and terracotta tiles, and measured ...

Authentic evidence of pure Christianity north of the Alps has never existed before now. And the findings have the potential to change holy history forever. “It will force us to turn back the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient amulet in a gravesite that could shake up the history of Christianity. Researchers dusted off the inscribed silver object, thought to date back some 1,800 ...

were Christians. Still, Christophe Goddard, a French archaeologist working at the site, said it was wrong to impose modern concepts of nation and ethnicity on ancient peoples. “This is not ...