This 1584 map of Jerusalem, made by a European priest who never visited the city, portrays scenes from the life of Christ in vivid color. This excerpt is taken from National Geographic’s new ...

Archaeologists tunneling beneath a Palestinian neighborhood just south of Jerusalem’s walls are uncovering a monumental stepped street that led to the foot of the Temple Mount, the sacred ...

For more than 13 centuries, the Dome of the Rock has been the jewel in the crown of Jerusalem’s sacred acropolis, a sprawling area known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount and to Muslims ...

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Jerusalem, Israel — Israeli archaeologists ... But the excavation in the shadow of the Temple Mount, called Haram esh-Sharif by Muslims, is stirring controversy in this politically charged ...

Thus the significance of those plastic buckets of debris I saw on Mount Scopus. Today the Temple Mount, a walled compound within the Old City of Jerusalem ... to Emek Tzurim National Park at ...

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday morning ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, the site’s administration said. Ben-Gvir's visit comes four months ...

On the walls of Jerusalem's Old City ... to commemorate the miracle in the Temple more than 2,000 years ago. Amy Briggs is executive editor of National Geographic History magazine.