Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century ... across the Holy Land, including ...

The very first map of the Holy Land, though, was published earlier in ... on the one drawn by Burchard of Mount Sion (late 13th century), who was a German priest, Dominican friar, and pilgrim ...

archaeologists have identified two first-century houses in this town. (The other house was discovered in 2009 and is not thought to be where Jesus grew up.) [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing ...