Vatican officials unveiled the paintings Tuesday, discovered along with the earliest known images of the apostles John and Andrew in an underground burial chamber beneath an office building on a ...

Rome, Italy (CNN)-- The oldest known image of the apostles Andrew and John have been discovered in catacombs under the city of Rome, dating back to the 4th century AD, archaeologists announced ...

The excavations have unearthed the remains of a 1,400-year-old Byzantine-age Christian church at the site, believed to be the legendary "Church of the Apostles." The teams of academics and ...

It was also there that he met a particularly gruesome death – a fate that awaited many of the apostles. Images of Bartholomew can be found in churches across the world, though at first people ...

were discovered on the ceiling of a tomb that also includes the earliest known images of Apostles John and Andrew. They were uncovered using a new laser technique that allowed restorers to burn ...

"These are the first images that we know of the faces of these four apostles," said Fabrizio Bisconti, head of archaeology for Rome's numerous Vatican-owned catacombs. The frescoes in a tomb of a ...

“They're the oldest images of the apostles and are datable to the latter half of the fourth century AD," said Fabrizio Bisconti, superintendent of archeology at the catacombs. According to ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe they may have discovered the biblical city of Bethsaida, the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles on the shores of the ...

AG Reader Mark Iommi found a sheltered spot to capture this dramatic landscape shot. Congratulations to this week’s AG Flickr group member Mark Iommi for his image ‘Apostles stormy sunset’, our AG ...

Because of this, the early church called her “the apostle to the apostles”. However, gradually and for a variety of reasons, the memory of Mary Magdalene changed in the western church ...