The first Assyrian inscription discovered in Jerusalem reveals ancient biblical-era correspondence between Assyrian empire ...

What a lovely dwelling place will be the Kingdom of heaven, a great welcoming tent of hospitality and abundance drifting across the desert, just out of reach but compelling each step closer to it. The ...

One can be critical of the Crusades, but primarily because of the great damage they have inflicted on the Christian East. As for the slaughters, what the Crusaders did to the Muslim inhabitants of ...

WE KNOW we're supposed to be watching "Kingdom of Heaven," Ridley Scott's epic about the battle of wills between Balian of Ibelin (Orlando Bloom), a 12th-century French crusader charged with ...