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Animals Wild Cities This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city. Animals This frog mysteriously re-evolved a full set of teeth. Animals Wild Cities Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. Many devout, of course, have cited evidence. The technique of carbon dating placed a certain tomb discovered inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre in as the one where Christ was laid post-crucifixion.

The tomb was carved from stone, just as it was described as in the Bible. Some believe this grave is a temporary resting place of their God. Then again lies the problem: the grave is one among many found, and there is absolutely no proof that the body of Christ once laid there.

The only reason National Geographic published it is that Christ appears real to many and frequently referred to as an actual person. Follow the Conversation on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and are not necessarily those of World Religion News.

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You can adjust all of your cookie settings. At the center of the room they were astounded to find a stone about the size of a footlocker that showed the most sacred elements of the Temple in Jerusalem carved in relief. As archaeologists continued to dig, they discovered an entire town buried less than a foot below the surface.

Archaeologist Dina Avshalom-Gorni walks me through the site, pointing out the remains of storerooms, ritual baths, and an industrial area where fish may have been processed and sold.

And who knows? Father Solana comes over to greet us, and I ask him what he tells visitors who want to know whether Jesus ever walked these streets. In the New Testament, the ancient city is the setting for many of his miracles and most dramatic moments: his triumphal entry, his cleansing of the Temple, his healing miracles at the Pools of Bethesda and Siloam—both of which have been uncovered by archaeologists—his clashes with the religious authorities, his last Passover meal, his agonized prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, his trial and execution, his burial and Resurrection.

Following his arrival in Jerusalem for Passover, Jesus is brought before the high priest Caiaphas and charged with blasphemy and threats against the Temple. The traditional location of that tomb, in what is now the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, is considered the holiest site in Christianity.

In I made several trips to the church to document the historic restoration of the Edicule, the shrine that houses the reputed tomb of Jesus. Now, during Easter week, I return to see it in all its soot-scrubbed, reinforced glory. Standing shoulder to shoulder with holiday pilgrims waiting to enter the tiny shrine, I recall the nights spent inside the empty church with the conservation team, coming upon darkened nooks etched with centuries of graffiti and burials of crusader kings.

I marvel at the many archaeological discoveries made in Jerusalem and elsewhere over the years that lend credibility to the Scriptures and traditions surrounding the death of Jesus, including an ornate ossuary that may contain the bones of Caiaphas, an inscription attesting to the rule of Pontius Pilate, and a heel bone driven through with an iron crucifixion nail, found in the Jerusalem burial of a Jewish man named Yehohanan. Just yards from the tomb of Christ are other rock-hewn tombs of the period, affirming that this church, destroyed and rebuilt twice, was indeed constructed over a Jewish burial ground.

I was overwhelmed by all the questions of history I hoped this brief and spectacular moment of exposure would eventually answer. Today, on my Easter visit, I find myself inside the tomb again, squeezed alongside three kerchiefed Russian women. The marble is back in place, protecting the burial bed from their kisses and all the rosaries and prayer cards rubbed endlessly on its time-polished surface. The youngest woman whispers entreaties for Jesus to heal her son Yevgeni, who has leukemia.

A priest standing outside the entrance loudly reminds us that our time is up, that other pilgrims are waiting. Reluctantly, the women stand up and file out, and I follow.

That quest will be endless, full of shifting theories, unanswerable questions, irreconcilable facts. But for true believers, their faith in the life, death, and Resurrection of the Son of God will be evidence enough.

All rights reserved. Magazine Feature. The shrine attracted global attention in when restorers uncovered remnants of an ancient tomb behind its ornate walls. This story appears in the December issue of National Geographic magazine. Staff writer Kristin Romey covers ancient civilizations and new discoveries for the magazine and website.

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