
Archaeologists working in Nazareth, Israel, have identified a house built far back to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up. According to Biblical Archaeology Review written by a professor Ken Dark at the University of Reading in UK, it was first uncovered in the 1880s, by nuns at the Sisters of Nazareth convent.
It was later
excavated by archaeologists in 2006 and dated to the first century. The house
is partly made of mortar-and-stone walls, and was cut into a rocky hillside;
the structure included a series of rooms – one, with its doorway, survived to
its full height. The researcher believes that that the house was turned into a
graveyard after the Jesus family moved out, a church built on top. “Was this
the house where Jesus grew up? Is archaeologist correct?. On the other hand,
there is no good archaeological reason why such an artifice should be
discounted,” Dark writes.
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