ESSENSTIAL FACTS

Christians know the story by heart: the women weeping over the body of the Lord; the kindness of Joseph of Arimathea, who is said to have provided a new family tomb in which to lay Jesus;...

Ossuaries It�s rather bizarre that one of the major sources of information about the life of ancient peoples comes to us through the remains of the dead. It goes without saying that archaeologists spend a lot of...

Secondary Burial It is a bit of an archaeological oddity. For only about a hundred years, from 30 BCE to 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed the city), people in the Jerusalem area practiced a...

rn about what an ossuary is, from what materials it was created, and what significance it held in ancient Jewish burial practices. >>more Find out about why this practice became popular in Jesus� time and how it affected...