Researchers at the ruined desert city of Shivta in southern Israel have discovered a painting of the face of Jesus Christ, thought to have been made in the sixth century A.D.

A previously unknown, 1,500-year-old painting of Christ’s face has been uncovered at a Byzantine church in Israel’s Negev desert. The discovery in the ancient Byzantine village of Shivta has ...

In 2018, Joan Taylor, a professor of early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London, published What ...

CHICAGO — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she had always thought Jesus was white. At ...

According to the Loyola Press, the "Good Shepherd" is one of the earliest art depictions of Jesus Christ in which he was often seen as a beardless youth.The Israel Antiquities Authority said in a ...

But the painting is from much later, dating from between the sixth and seventh century A.D. To get to the underground chamber, Padró’s team removed over 45 tons of stones.