house in Nazareth, according to research 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.
