Researchers find ancient rooms under Jerusalem's Western Wall

Israeli researchers on Tuesday unveiled mysterious underground rooms with an unknown function, carved out of the bedrock near where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago.

Israel uncovers Roman structure at foot of Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday unveiled a newly unearthed section of the Western Wall and the first Roman public structure ever discovered in the city, they said.

Trump heads for Bethlehem to see Palestinian leader

Donald Trump makes the short trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem on Tuesday to meet Mahmud Abbas, who hopes to convince the unpredictable US president to remain committed to an independent Palestinian state.

Trump visits Jerusalem to seek paths to Israeli-Palestinian peace

US President Donald Trump visits Jerusalem on Monday to seek ways to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, a goal that has eluded his predecessors but which he says could be easier than "people have thought".

Archaeologists announce progress in mapping first century citadel Archaeologists from the National Museum of History have announced their preliminary report from the latest field excavations at Viet Nam's Luy Lâu citadel in Bac Ninh Province.

Alone in the wild fields Tran rarely left the city. Although he had travelled to a few places around the country, his only longing was for a single desolate area in the Central Highlands. It was a long, dead valley at the foot of a mountain which had suffered from a fire. When he visited, the trees had yet to grow back, but strangely enough, this place was imprinted on his memory.

May 22 in History