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♪ oxford, mississippi, is a lovely, incongruously eccentric, little island, a mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers, and oddballs drawn, perhaps, by its rich literary tradition as the home of one of our greatest authors, william faulkner. faulkner was a mississippi native, a former postman, an outdoorsman and eventual winner of the nobel prize in literature and two pulitzer prizes for fiction. he never graduated high school. this was his house, roanoke. faulkner wrote such american classics as "the sound and the fury," "as i lay dying," "light in august" and "absalom abs...

Faulkner wrote such american classics as "the sound and the fury," "as i lay dying," "light in august," and "absalom, absalom!". and many of his works took place in a fictional county, a place very much like this place, in mississippi. >> bill griffith: this is where faulkner started his writing career in this room, here. >> anthony: for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner's estate. >> bill griffith: he added this room on after he won the nobel prize. and on the wall here is an outline of one of his novels. >> jack pendarvis: yeah, that was his greatest book....

Sins, trying to overthrow his father. this is amazing. so, how'd they build this? >> well, as you can see, this was built out of solid bedrock about 2,000 years ago. >> so, jesus would have seen this? >> yeah, jesus would have seen this prior to his crucifixion. for hundreds of years now, people believed this was absalom's tomb, and what do they do? they stone it. muslims, christians, and jews, pilgrims as they come by here -- for hundreds of years, this has been a jerusalem tradition. >> but zias is sure the stone-throwers had it wrong. his proof? inscriptions that suggest it's not absalom bu...

A fake? >> we found out that the inscription was freshly cut through, though, a general patina. there is, of course, a police investigation. >> other inscriptions were found in a cave outside jerusalem. the archaeologist who excavated the site claims it was used by john the baptist. >> i don't believe that there's any connection between this cave, which is a water system from the iron age, with john the baptist. >> uzi dahari is deputy director of the israeli antiquities authority. there's a face on the wall. there are crosses on the wall. does that -- does that suggest... >> no. it's one bedo...

Faulkner wrote such american classics as "the sound and the fury," "as i lay dying," "light in august" and "absalom absalom." and many of his works took place in a fictional county, a place very much like this place, in mississippi. >> this is where faulkner started his writing career, in this room here. >> for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner's estate. >> he added this room after he won the nobel prize. on the wall here is an outline of one of his novels. >> that was his greatest book. >> faulkner thought this was his masterpiece. >> jack pendarvis is the...