Jesus’ tomb opened for first time in centuries

Posted by | October 29, 2016 21:00 | Filed under: Religion

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According to National Geographic, the tomb where Jesus is believed to be buried was opened for the first time in centuries.

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According to an exclusive report by National Geographic, a partner in the project at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the original rock surface has been covered with marble slabs since at least 1555, and possibly longer. During a conservation project to shore up the shrine surrounding the tomb, a team from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece realized that they would need to access the substructure of the shrine to restore it, said Fredrik Hiebert, the archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society.

“The Greek conservation group are the first, as far as we know, to actually open this,” Hiebert told Live Science. “It’s pretty exceptional.”…The site venerated as the tomb of Jesus is encased in structures like a Russian nesting doll. According to the Hebrew Bible, Jesus was laid to rest on a stone platform in a cave hewn out of a rock wall. In 326, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, sent his mother, Helena, as a representative to Jerusalem, where locals pointed out one cave among an area of first-century burials that was said to hold the tomb of Jesus.

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31 responses to Jesus’ tomb opened for first time in centuries

  1. Larry Schmitt October 29th, 2016 at 21:20

    Kinda like all the places in the Colonies with signs that say “George Washington slept here.”

  2. StoneyCurtisll October 29th, 2016 at 21:29

    And what is inside the “tomb of jesus”?

    • Larry Schmitt October 29th, 2016 at 21:30

      Spiders.

      • StoneyCurtisll October 29th, 2016 at 21:31

        And a lot of dust…

    • Jungle_Bhoy October 29th, 2016 at 22:57

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleUvvjeOh4

      • robert October 29th, 2016 at 23:28

        Notice nobody is wearing safety glasses and clean as a laundry commercial.

        This must have been a pre-requisit for a job at fox news

      • StoneyCurtisll October 30th, 2016 at 00:53

        I remember watching that live~!…

    • fahvel October 30th, 2016 at 02:49

      air, stale moldy air and a short note: “gotcha!!”

      • StoneyCurtisll October 30th, 2016 at 11:16

        ‘gotcha’~!

    • Bunya October 31st, 2016 at 14:35

      I’m going to say they found Jesus’ laptop – and wait until they discover Jesus sent 650K e-mails to Mary Magdalene.

      • StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2016 at 21:14

        LOL~!

      • StoneyCurtisll October 31st, 2016 at 21:18

        I just saw a link on YouTube, I think it was for Newsmax or News of The World or some other BS site, and the headline was “650K new Clinton E-Mails found by FBI”…
        Of course nothing could be further from the truth…

  3. StoneyCurtisll October 29th, 2016 at 21:34

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI

  4. robert October 29th, 2016 at 22:18

    I could be mistaken but didn’t Jesus vanish on Easter Sunday ?

    And if not where did the sacred shroud come from

    • Willys41 October 29th, 2016 at 23:33

      You’re asking what happened something like 2,000 years ago and the answer is everybody has a theory and very little evidence, if any, to back up their theory.

      • robert October 30th, 2016 at 15:12

        I think a body would say it’s fact. If no body ? Fiction

        • The Original Just Me October 30th, 2016 at 18:22

          See My reply to Wills41

      • The Original Just Me October 30th, 2016 at 18:21

        There is a body in a Tomb, but it is Not in Jerusalem.

    • Dwendt44 October 29th, 2016 at 23:50

      the shroud is a fake created in the 14th century. It’s been a money maker for centuries.

      • robert October 30th, 2016 at 15:09

        Fake or not it’s in the books that no body was found from that day forward

    • The Original Just Me October 30th, 2016 at 18:18

      Actually, Easter is a Celebration Day of the Goddess Esta from Norsemen Mythology. That is why it is celebrated on a particular Lunar Day Schedule Each Year .

      • robert October 30th, 2016 at 18:42

        You will have a hard time convincing those who observe good Friday . Good luck

  5. bpollen October 29th, 2016 at 23:13

    Helena was like a tourist on the boardwalk – Pieces of the True Cross, by the camel load!

    • Dwendt44 October 29th, 2016 at 23:50

      Enough pieces of the cross and enough nails to build a small house.

      • bpollen October 30th, 2016 at 18:11

        She also brought back parts of Jesus’s tunic (there’s one born every minute) and the supposed label from Jesus’s cross, and the rope he was tied to the cross with (I thought they were supposed to have nailed him.)

        I figure every grifter in Palestine at least thought about scamming her, and it’s pretty clear that SOME of them did.

  6. Dwendt44 October 29th, 2016 at 23:52

    The ‘Supposed’ tomb of jesus.

  7. Suzanne McFly October 30th, 2016 at 07:57

    Pretty sure he will have his butt lifted in an obvious way of saying “kiss my a$$” to the “christians” of today who use him and his name to make money off of idiots.

  8. oldfart October 30th, 2016 at 10:40

    Any real Proof they may be expecting was probably removed or stolen centuries ago.
    National Geographic will be doing a Special on this project soon on their channel.
    From a historical POV it might be interesting but my bet is any hope for significant religious revelations will be disappointing.

    • JohnJ October 31st, 2016 at 01:01

      NatGeo is now owned by the same people as Faux “news”. Distrust anything.

  9. The Original Just Me October 30th, 2016 at 18:15

    Are there any blood stains that might hold DNA ???

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