IT MAKES A GREAT DEAL OF SENSE THAT SOLOMON PROBABLY CHOSE A "HOLY" SITE, IN QUOTATION MARKS, IN JERUSALEM, FOR THE TEMPLE, AND THAT PROBABLY WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD EXISTED BEFOREHAND. Suarez ...
Har Nof, perched majestically on the hills of west Jerusalem, is a neighborhood that ... The neighborhood’s layout reflects its steep terrain, with staircases connecting streets at different ...
commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in Jerusalem. Before Mary's birth, her parents received a heavenly message that they would bear a child.
Archaeologists have discovered a sunken temple off the coast of Pozzuoli, near Campi Flegrei, that feels like it could be straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. The temple, estimated to be at ...
This terracotta is modeled after a marble relief on the inside of the Arch of Titus, in Rome. It shows soldiers carrying sacred trophies looted from the Temple of Jerusalem while they proceed through ...
Who were the Hellenistic Jews and why are they important? Second Temple of Jerusalem. Credit: Templar1307. CC BY 2.0/flickr The Hellenization of much of the world brought about by the conquests of ...
The Church of the Pater Noster, located on the site of the French-owned Sanctuary of the Eleona, in Jerusalem. (Photo: Hoshvilim/Wikimedia Commons) A visit by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël ...
The Temple of Athena Nike. Credit: Troels Myrup, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Standing on a bastion at the very entrance to the imposing Acropolis Hill of Athens stands a masterpiece of the Greek ...