The Mount of Olives is one of the holiest places on the earth. It is first mentioned in the Bible over a thousand years before the birth of Christ, in the Second Book of Kings, where one finds ...

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is situated on the slope of the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane and is one of the most easily recognizable landmarks of Jerusalem. This striking example ...

2 - Update of the List of the World Heritage in Danger 2014 38COM 8B.4 - Nominations to be processed on an emergency basis: Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern ...

The Mount of Olives lamp is one of the few material traces of a Jewish presence around Jerusalem in the third to fifth centuries C.E.," Chernin said. "The exquisite artistic workmanship of the ...

to have a kaleidoscopic view again of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which too is connected to several stories of Jesus Christ. The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to ...

Polaris My stint as an amateur archaeologist began one morning on the southern slope of Mount Scopus, a hill on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem ... from the Mount of Olives to the east ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...