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Possibility that this was the very house in which jesus had been brought up. >> narrator: by painstakingly distinguishing different walls, ken dark was able to recreate the outline of a floor no one had seen in centuries. >> there were a series of block cut walls, walls that had actually been built by people out of blocks of stones and mortared together. those walls, when one looks at them in plan, formed the outline of a house. >> narrator: it is now possible to recreate the house that jesus may have lived in more than 2,000 years ago. a house of two stories with bedrooms, family room, a cour...

Archeologist who made the discovery, it is the find of a lifetime. >> i don't expect that i will ever again work on a site which is both so fascinating and catches the imagination of quite so many people around the world. >> narrator: first uncovered in the 19th century, the true significance of this site was ignored by mainstream archeology for more than 100 years. only when ken dark began investigating in 2006 did clear evidence emerge from the dust, the ruins of a first century jewish house. was this simple home where jesus spent the formative years of his life? >> it was originally -- >> n...

Vaulted area. did that vault include two tombs? yes, there are tombs incorporated in the fort. this did alert me to the possibility that we've found the church of the nutrition. >> what ken dark says he's found in this underground site matches the description of the church of the nutrition, which according to legend was built on the site of jesus's childhood home. >> narrator: according to a later tradition, there was also a tomb deep beneath the church belonging to none other than mary's husband. >> it was believed that the site contained the tomb of st. joseph. >> one of the strong clues tha...

Believed those. >> narrator: in 2006, british archeologist ken dark conducts a routine inspection of the convent's cellar and gets the surprise of his life. >> i went over to the sisters of na nazareth convent, and to my great surprise, instead of a small locker or two, there was a huge cellar full of archeological features including what was immediately apparent was an undiscovered cave church. i naturally was amazed to see archeological features of which mainstream archeology had been unaware. >> narrator: the remains of the church occupied a large section of one-half of the cellar, but who ...

Archaeologist ken dark conducts a routine inspection of the cellar and gets the surprise of his life. >> i went over to the sisters of nazareth convent and to my great surprise, instead of a small locker or two, there was a huge cellar of archaeological features including what was immediately apparent was an undiscovered cave church. i naturally was amazed to see archaeological features of which mainstream archaeology had been unaware. >> the remains occupied a large section of one-half of the cellar. but who built it and how old it was remained a mystery. >> i began to look through pilgrimage...