Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear.

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 buried ...

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, ancient ...

‘The Church grew at a steady rate of 40% per decade,’ says Mike Aquilina, ‘and all that happened at a time when the practice of the faith was a capital crime.’ Cover of ‘Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: ...

In a study published today in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated over 1,000 human remains from the Nile River Valley, ...

Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...

Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity, by Nadya Williams, InterVarsity Press Does history bend toward progress or does it bend toward chaos?

Archaeologists uncovered the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais. A team of archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais, offering ...