Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient city of Hippos looking east, with the cathedral's location marked within the city, March 31, 2026. (photo credit: MICHAEL ...

Additional discoveries made a the site included a bronze candelabrum and marble reliquary, both the largest of their kind to ever be found in Israel. A marble block with three half-sphere depressions ...

The baptismal font was discovered during restoration work at the Church of the Nativity. (Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) In a separate project at the site of an ancient city on ...

People in the United States often have a kind of cynical view of participation. In an era of "participation trophies," we associate it with bothering to show up — and not much more. We talk about ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of a Byzantine cathedral in Antiochia Hippos, destroyed by an earthquake in 749 C.E., have uncovered a rare marble artifact with three identical wells believed to ...

For as long as humans have prayed, they have probably prayed at water places. Water often moves us to wonder, joy, terror or peace, and many times, water—whether it ...

For some six centuries, the immense baptismal font at Siena's Battistero di San Giovanni, located just behind the Tuscan city's zebra-striped Duomo, has been put to regular use in the baptising of ...

When it comes to birthdays, we can rattle off the date without thinking. Most birthdays are marked with some celebration, too, whether simple or elaborate. But how many of us can recite off the top of ...