New analysis into the residue inside ancient ceramic vessels from 11th–12th century Jerusalem has found that they were potentially used as hand grenades. Previous research into the diverse ...

Archeologists analyzed the residue inside four ceramic vessels found in the Old City of Jerusalem. One vessel was potentially a medieval grenade, consistent with first-hand accounts from the period.

German coat of arms, Hall of the Last Supper, Jerusalem JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a news release issued by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an international research team used advanced ...

12th-century capital made for the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, on view in Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for ...

The pipes of a medieval organ, buried for centuries and discovered near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, are once more filling a Jerusalem monastery with ancient ...

Was this hand grenade used during the Crusades? If so, it’s merely the latest in a long line of medieval incendiary devices. Anthropologists have excavated sphero-conical vessels throughout the Middle ...

Early this year, the London restaurateur and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi got a call from the Metropolitan Museum medievalists Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm—who were five years into ...

Just as they did a thousand years ago, visitors to Jerusalem today sometimes hold mirrors to the sky. Believing the city to be situated at the gates of heaven, they hope for a glimpse of the celestial ...