In most churches, the decorations ... on Easter Day is also known as the Triduum, which is Latin for “three days.” Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church ...

There may be few or even no decorations. There might be an Easter Garden inside or outside the church. This is a miniature model of a garden that shows the parts of the Easter story – there might be ...

Traditionally, the day starts out with local girls and women decorating a ... and new life. Easter eggs are dyed red to exemplify the blood of the Christ. The hard shell of the egg is said to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a secret tomb at the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan - one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A long-buried tomb containing the remains of 12 ancient skeletons ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered a hidden tomb containing the remains of 12 ancient skeletons beneath an iconic building known as "The Treasury" in Petra, Jordan. The discovery, captured ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons beneath the "Treasury" in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. In Arabic, the Treasury is known as "Al-Khazneh," which ...

Discovering a young pharaoh's ancient, long-dormant tomb sent the media into a frenzy in the 1920s – but uncovering one mystery invited another when the financier of the expedition died a sudden ...

Beneath the ancient rock-cut building, archaeologists have uncovered a hidden tomb containing 12 relatively well-preserved human skeletons along with an extensive array of grave offerings.

Though the archaeologists suspected that a tomb underneath the Treasury existed, they “ran out of time” to complete their exploration, Creasman said in an email. Earlier this year, Creasman ...

Archaeologists have discovered a tomb beneath the ancient, imposing Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan. Long before it appeared in Stephen Spielberg’s 1989 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last ...

The civilization existed from roughly the 4th century B.C. until it was annexed by the Romans in 106 A.D. Archaeologists had already discovered indications of this tomb around 2003, but the dig ...

A new tomb was discovered at Petra’s Khazneh, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The tomb’s discovery, as revealed on Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown,” also included 12 ...