What We Know About Nazareth at the Time of Jesus
The New Testament accounts of Nazareth are roundly supported by archaeological evidence
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The New Testament accounts of Nazareth are roundly supported by archaeological evidence
AMMAN — A group of archaeologist discovered a hypogean (underground) tomb in 2001 underneath the rocky foundations of the early 2nd-century AD Gerasacity wall. The burial objects found with the skeleton in the rock cut chamber of the tomb fit the material culture of the Late Hellenistic Levant.
Archaeologists are beginning to shed renewed light on an ancient site -- where, according to the biblical account, the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant may have once stood.
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Finds at Horvat Tefen also shed light on the little-known material culture of the Hasmonean period in the Galilee.