One painting inside the tomb shows the three-headed dog Cerberus, who in Greek Mythology guarded the gates to the underworld.

Though its authenticity is disputed, the “Holy Fire” refers to a flame of purported divine origin that ignites inside Jesus’ tomb.

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

I recall being alone inside the tomb after its marble cladding was briefly removed, overwhelmed that I was looking at one of the world’s most important monuments—a simple limestone shelf that ...

A Tomb Once Said to Hold ‘Jesus’s Midwife’ Might Instead Hold Ancient Royalty For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure.

The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into ...

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.” ...