Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

The tombs served different purposes throughout the years, from rituals to solving internal conflicts of tribes and Muslim communities - Click the link for more details.

Amid the ongoing war in Israel, a disputed land deal has reached crisis point after bulldozers began tearing up a contested section of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter.