Category: tomb

Researchers Reveal Hidden Corridor Inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza—It Was Used for This Purpose

A hidden corridor 30 feet (approx. 9 meters) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza and this could lead to further findings, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday, March 2. The discovery within the pyramid, the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still…


Israeli Archaeologists Excavating ‘Jesus Midwife’ Tomb

JERUSALEM—An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the…