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Can you clarify? The article is pretty clear about it being the known tomb. They exposed the marble surface.
by exclusiv 10y ago
Can you clarify? The article is pretty clear about it being the known tomb. They exposed the marble surface.
- robbrown451 10y agoThe article may be clear, but the title is not.
- wyclif 10y agoHaven't you guys been to Sunday School? [insert Indiana Jones meme here]
- vidarh 10y agoThe point is that the title calls it Christ's burial place, but there's no evidence that it is that.
- azernik 10y agoWhat is now known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was actually designated as such only in around 325/6. At the time there was a temple of Aphrodite on the site; Emperor Constantine ordered it replaced by a church, and when his mother Helena went to visit the site, she claimed to have discovered the True Cross and proclaimed it to be the spot of Jesus's burial. Aside from that rather questionable and politically/religiously convenient claim, there's no other evidence for the site having anything to do with the historical Jesus.