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Explore Bible Land Images

View from Masada
The canyon below Masada

The Explore section is designed to help you see the biblical world as it really is. Each subject combines modern aerial and ground photography with interactive image sliders that compare locations, viewpoints, seasons, and, where appropriate, historical reconstructions. Together, they highlight many of the sites and landscapes most visitors to the Holy Land experience.

Whether you are exploring an entire region, tracing a biblical journey, or examining an individual site, these visual comparisons reveal geographical relationships and details that are difficult to appreciate from maps or photographs alone. Choose a subject below and begin exploring the land where the events of the Bible unfolded.


Major Biblical Sites

  • Capernaum
  • Jerusalem
  • Bethlehem
  • Jericho
  • Nazareth
  • Bethany
  • Magdala
  • Caesarea Maritima
  • Dan
  • Hazor
  • Megiddo
  • Beersheba
  • Hebron
  • Shiloh
  • Samaria (Sebastia)

Regional Studies

  • Sea of Galilee
  • Jordan River
  • Dead Sea
  • Wilderness of Judea
  • Jezreel Valley
  • Mount Carmel
  • Shephelah (Judean Foothills)
  • Negev
  • Golan Heights
  • Jerusalem and Its Surroundings

Bethlehem Shepherd's Filed
A young shepherd boy in Shepherd’s Field near Bethlehem. In the background are two watchtowers.

View from Masada

View west from the southern end of Masada. The canyon below is Nahal Metsada, one of the deep ravines that isolate the fortress from the surrounding Judean wilderness.

Bethlehem Shepherd's Filed