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 ...

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 ...

In 2018, Joan Taylor, a professor of early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London, published What Did Jesus Look Like?, a historical study into Christ’s appearance.

A fire devastated First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, but one notable item survived virtually unscathed: A painting of Jesus.