AP: Israel Cave Linked to John the Baptist
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KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel - Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers - basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher.    Only a few artifacts linked to New Testament figures have ever been found in the Holy Land, and the cave is potentially a major discovery in biblical archaeology...
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Archaeologists have found an ancient quarry where King Herod's workers may have chiselled the giant stones used to rebuild the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.
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Forty-one years ago, rescuers couldn&#039;t get the body of James Mitchell out of the cave where he died. Workers dynamited the cave, sealed it with rocks, placed a memorial headstone above it and left him dangling in his harness, 60 feet above the cave floor.
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Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end.
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Israeli prosecutors charged four antiquities dealers with forging a slew of biblical artefacts including a &quot;Jesus box&quot; that had been claimed as proof of Christianity&#39;s origins.
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Work begins on an ancient mound near Jerusalem's holiest site, a move expected to raise tensions.
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Archaeologists believe a settlement is linked by a road and perhaps by belief to the mysterious megalithic monument
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The world into which Jesus was born and raised has shaped morals for two millennia. How Jewish mores became Christianity's customs.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 10 -- From the roof of his home just inside the Old City walls, Palestinian landlord Nasser Karain has a view of the valleys and plateaus where scriptures say Solomon built the first Temple, Jesus was betrayed and Muhammad rose to heaven.
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Building a housing complex or a road in the Holy Land can often have grave implications.
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Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, has been turned into a large prison by the separation barrier Israel is building in the West Bank, the top Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land said yesterday.
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JERUSALEM - Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end.
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN MASADA, Israel - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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including American icon Madonna - wanted to learn more about the mystical Jewish texts, they decided to go the source: Israel. On the
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Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana.
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Relatives seeking information on two Israeli soldiers who were seized by Hezbollah militants in northern Israel at the start of last year's Lebanon war met Wednesday with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Archaeologists and other experts are refuting filmmakers' assertions that burial boxes from the 1st century held the remains of Jesus and his family.