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Place, in a real home. >> to be able to fill in something from the context in which he grew up would be very, very exciting. >> for the english archaeologist who made the discovery, it's 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. >> first uncovered in the 19th century, the true significance of this site was ignored by mainstream archaeology for more than 100 years. only when ken dark began investigating in 2006 did clear evidence emerge from the dust, the ruin...

Did it have a well? well, yes. there is a well at the site. did it have a vault under it? yes, the site included a large vaulted area. did that vault include two tombs? yes, there are tombs incorporated in the vault. this did alert me to the possibility that we'd 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' childhood home. >> according to a later tradition, there was also a tomb deep beneath the church belonging to none other than mary...

>> realizing that there was a first-century house at the site was exciting in archaeological terms because it raises the possibility that this was the very house in which jesus had been brought up. >> 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 rock-cut walls, walls that have actually been built by people out of blocks of stone mortared together. those walls, when one looks at them in plan, form the outline of a house. >> it is now possible to recreate the house that jesus may have...

Church and that a burial of a saint lay on that ground, but these were just local stories, and i'm not sure anybody really believed those. >> in 2006, british archaeologist ken dark conducts a routine inspection of the convent 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 rock cut tomb, there was a huge cellar full 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 b...

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