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Multi-periodSite Name: Talpiot Tomb Alternative Name: Jesus Tomb?, The Lost Tomb of Jesus? Talpiyot TombCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 2.832 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Jerusalem Nearest Village: Talpiot
Latitude: 31.750000N Longitude: 35.216667E
Condition:
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Rock Cut Tomb in Jerusalem. The Talpiot Tomb is a tomb discovered in 1980 in the East Talpiot neighbourhood five kilometers south of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. It contained ten ossuaries, six of them with epigraphs, including one with the inscription that has been interpreted as "Jesus, son of Joseph", though this text is disputed.
The tomb also yielded various human remains and several carvings.
The Talpiot find was first published in 1994 in "Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel" numbers 701-709, and first discussed in the media in England in March/April 1996. Later in 1996, an article describing the find was published in volume 29 of Atiqot, the journal of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
A controversial 2007 documentary film produced by Canadian film director James Cameron and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici titled The Lost Tomb of Jesus and a book written by Jacobovici, together with Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb promote the idea that the Talpiot Tomb was the burial place of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as several other figures from the New Testament. This claim is disputed by many archaeologists and theologians, as well as language and biblical scholars.
More at Wikepedia.
Note: Jesus 'Tomb' Controversy Reopened, see comment
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