The alleged place where Jesus spent his
childhood before becoming Messiah
may have been found – at least
archaeologists say so.
Archaeologists working in Nazareth,
Israel, have identified a house dating 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 achaeologists 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, then there was a church built
on top. “Was this the house where Jesus
grew up? It is impossible to say on
archaeological grounds. On the other
hand, there is no good archaeological
reason why such an identification should
be discounted,” Dark writes.
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