The country has been at the crossroads of ancient civilizations, having hosted Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Persian and Roman towns ... and even topple delicate ancient structures, and destroy ...
The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.
The perceived homoeroticism of Gladiator II has caused much comment, but is it really such a distortion of the truth?
An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a myth.