CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 16, 2015 19:54:00
Finding first century synagogues in galilee. what happens is, they build on top of the synagogues. churches are often built on top of other churches. so when you actually find something like this that appears to be a genuine first severalry synagogue with roman era pottery, it's very, very exciting. absolutely. it could fill in some important cultural context for us about jesus. >> and what's your feeling about magdalene and whether this is some reference to mary's hometown? >> this is a tougher one. it's a nice idea that this is mary magdalene's hometown, and it's possible. we have this name ...