From PJ Media: "Under the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Archeologists Found What Could Be the Tomb of Jesus." Renovations to the floor of the church in recent years gave an opportunity for archeological excavations, which uncovered gardens and tombs as described in John 19:41:
During the time of Jesus, this quarry was a burial site “with several tombs hewn in the rock.” It wasn’t the only such site in Jerusalem, but when Constantine—the first emperor of Rome to convert to Christianity—was in power, this quarry was the one exalted by early Christians as the site of the burial, so the emperor ordered the construction of the first iteration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there (the church would suffer numerous attacks over the centuries, before its current form was constructed by Crusaders in the 12th century).
What Stasolla’s team found was that, in the time between when the quarry was originally mined during the Iron Age and the construction of the church atop it, the area to which the burial site is attributed had (at one time) been used for agriculture, based on the discovery of 2,000 year-old olive trees and grapevines.
“Low stone walls were erected, and the space between them was filled with dirt,” noted Stasolla.
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