The marble block was found in a hall of baptism called a photisterion. It may shed light on “a stage of the early Christian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. Data suggests that 31.6 % of the world's population identifies as Christian. Christianity, one of ...

Archaeologists Discover Tooth and Bones That Could Challenge Early Christianity ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers made ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, sold for nearly $3.9 million on June 11, 2024, at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt ...

Imagine a world without Christianity: It's next to impossible, right? But everything needs to start at some time, and for Christianity, that was during Roman rule, an era of history synonymous with ...

Like Christmas and other Catholic holy days, Easter is often misunderstood and mis-celebrated. Either its origins are said to be based on pagan holidays (a myth we will bust), or we treat it as a day ...

Distinguishing speculation from historical fact. Hundreds of articles and scores of books have been written in the last 150 years seeking to establish what the early (pre-Constantinian) church thought ...