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Name of this site is complicated, jews call it the temple mount while muslims call it noble sanctuary. on one side is the western world, the holiest site the jews come to pray at. and nearby, the christian church. in just one square mile, the most revered places of each of the three religions. and this is also the place where the bible tells us that god had finally demanded too much. abraham had waited into very old age for the children that god had promised. he had already been told to send his first son, ismaaiyl, away, now only isaac was left at home. >> abraham, for better or for worse, is...

Visitors were actually angels bringing them a message from god, and it did come to pass, sarah gave birth to the child she had wanted for so long, a son named isaac. his descendents became the jewish people. >> narrator: next, a family feud that are stretches back plin ya as our journey around the world and across time continues. when back to the beginning with christian yan amanpour returns -- christiane amanpour returns. ♪ push it. ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. it's what you d...

Too far. back to the beginning with christi christiane amanpour continues. >> the landscape of the bible is brutal as breath taking. here it's easy to imagine the suffering and patience it took for a family to survive in abraham's time. and why it's here that god would demand a stark beginning that he would never begin ask for anything like it. i'm standing under the rock where muslim's believe the prophet mohammad ascended to hen, and this is holy to all three religions because jews and christians believe that this is where god commanded abraham to bring his son isaac for sacrifice. today thi...

One son is about the age abraham's son would have been. and he's try ing ing to imagine he would have felt. >> he was scared and very worried for his dad and knew his dad was going through a long trouble getting over the fact that he had to kill his own son, but i'm sure he understood it was coming from a higher power. >> for jews and christians too, the story of what happened next is the same, abraham's faith was absolute. he didn't argue with god. he tied up his son and laid him on the rock and then he drew his knife. >> and as the story goes, abraham literally lifts the knife before god say...

We're going to find out whether that's true. >> i'm going to show you a very interesting discovery. >> zahi is a famous egyptian archaeologist. he said a massive amount of manpower would have been needed to build these pyramids. >> who's pyramid that? and that took ten,000 people. >> 10,000 people lived here in this place. >> wow. >> next to the ruins of the village where the workmen lived, there's an ancient cemetery. the tombs of the pyramid builders are a significant discovery that's answered many questions about who they were. >> okay, were the builder of the pyramids israelites? >> not at...