Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...

For all of Christianity’s influence today, the archeological evidence for the first two centuries of the religion’s existence is notoriously thin. This is why the publication of a previously ...

Jesus may have been seen as a magician by early Christians, according to experts. Centuries-old artwork shows Jesus holding a wand while raising Lazarus from the dead.

This Christian text you’ve never heard of, The Shepherd of Hermas, barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians far and wide The ‘Shepherd of Hermas’ has been accused ...

Early Christian artists often drew inspiration from depictions of Jupiter, informed by earlier depictions of his Greek counterpart Zeus, when visualizing their God and his son Jesus.These same ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The ...

Archeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known evidence of Christianity in Europe.

Given that the Shepherd is a long, rambling text that doesn’t explicitly mention Jesus, you might assume that it was only read by a small number of early Christian theologians. This, however ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered early Christian art from around 1,500 years ago. It was likely drawn between the late Byzantine era and the early Islamic period.