Gutenberg Bible Reunited With Rare 15th-Century Devotional Print Once Tucked Inside Its Pages
Two centuries after they were separated, the print and the Bible are on display together at the Huntington Library in California
Why Oscar Wilde’s Play About a Biblical Temptress Was Banned From the British Stage for Decades
“Salome,” a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphs into bloodlust
Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time
Rare 1,600-Year-Old Pendant Discovered in Turkey Depicts King Solomon Defeating the Devil
The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians think it was used as a protective amulet
An Ancient Tablet Inscribed With Nine of the Ten Commandments From the Book of Exodus Is for Sale
The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments. Nobody recognized its significance until decades after its discovery
Nine Mythical Places Archaeologists Think May Have Actually Existed
Historical evidence is helping to pinpoint the exact locations of fabled sites, from King Arthur’s castle to Solomon’s Temple
Hebrew Bible From Medieval Spain Could Sell for $7 Million
After years of painstaking work, Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon finished the illustrated manuscript in 1312
Oil Paintings Rescued From Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire Go on Display
Known as the “Mays,” the artworks were created for an annual competition in the 17th century
One of the World’s Oldest Surviving Books Is for Sale
The rare early Christian text was written in a monastery in Egypt between 250 and 350 C.E.
An Early Charlotte Brontë Story Speaks to the Author’s Lifelong Fascination With the Supernatural
The 1830 account details an eerie encounter with a stranger who predicted the death of the writer’s father
Why Are We So Scared of Friday the 13th?
From the Knights Templar to Norse mythology, here’s how fear of the spooky date crept into popular culture
Untold Stories of American History
The Bible That Stopped a Bullet
In 1863, a New Testament tucked in the pocket of Union soldier Charles W. Merrill prevented a musket ball from mortally wounding him
Henry VIII’s Book of Psalms Reflects His Quest for Legitimacy—and His Fear of Death
Handwritten annotations in the Tudor king’s psalter show how he looked to scripture to justify his break from Rome and the annulment of his first marriage
World’s Oldest Near-Complete Hebrew Bible Goes to Auction
The Codex Sassoon could break auction records, becoming the most valuable historical document ever sold
How an Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries
Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls
What Nativity Scenes Tell Us About the Evolution of Christianity
From ancient mosaics to Saint Francis of Assisi, depictions of Jesus’s birth reflect the changing conventions of the world’s largest religion
Is Judaism a Younger Religion Than Previously Thought?
A new book by an Israeli archaeologist makes the stunning claim that common Jewish practices emerged only a century or so before Jesus
Museum of the Bible Returns Centuries-Old Gospel Manuscript to Greece
The artifact had been stolen from a monastery during World War I
Did Archaeologists Find Saint Peter’s Birthplace?
An inscription uncovered at the site of an ancient church offers new evidence
Earliest Known Images of Two Biblical Heroines Unearthed in Israel
Found in an ancient synagogue, the 1,600-year-old mosaics tell the stories of Deborah and Jael
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