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It's important particularly in relationship to the house because you would not have a church being built here simply because they wanted to build a church. the church was being built here because it's a holy place. >> whether saint joseph was ever buried here is impossible to know. the tomb has been empty since the crusades, but above it, the archaeological investigation uncovered a series of features that predated both joseph's tomb and the church of the nutrition. could they belong to a house? >> this is part of a cave which is very typical, very common here in the hill country, and so we ha...

To the second temple period. this is the kind of home you can imagine jesus might have been born in in bethlehem. the family would have lived up here. they may have accessed the top floor from a ladder. maybe two or three rooms. everything crowded. but what is really significant is what we find down here on the ground floor. this is actually quite typical of a first century home. the animals would have been kept inside the home on the ground floor. here, they would have eaten food that would have been placed in here. they would have drank some water. in a trough like this, we can imagine the m...

That period, so from that point of view, it's very disappointing to think that this is what he made for his eternal memorial, after he'd built so many projects, huge projects, in this country and in many other cities all around the mediterranean. >> are we 100 percent sure that this is herod's sarcophagus? no, we are not. it's all about circumstantial evidence, if you'd like. >> the debate over whether this is really king herod's tomb continues. >> not only does josephus tell us he was buried here, and not only should we expect herod to be buried at the site of his greatest military victory, b...

Leveled in cities, including aleppo. >> you work with the understanding that you might find yourself dead or crippled or dismembered on the floor next to the people you're trying to save. because the bombs would land so close, they'd knock you off your feet. is stibia is shattered, his fibula is broken in multiple places. >> reporter: dr. samer attar was born in chicago to syrian parents. he's a leading orthopedic surgeon and a member of the syrian american medical society. the society used to just connect syrian american doctors to one another, but it rose into action with the war. and today,...

The cave was already here. the limestone had eroded away over thousands of years. then the engineers came in. they cleared out the cave, and they lowered this floor about tax feet. when the hospital is finished, it will have three operating s,oms, 12 in-patient beds, and a state-of-the-art emergency room. they expect it will be hard to find, and even harder to hit. since 2011, the syrian american medical society has sent more than 100 doctors into the battlefield and raised more than $97 million in aid. and we'll be back in just a moment. and we'll be back in just a moment. re of their own tea...