What was found in the tomb of Christ. War provocation. The opened "coffin" of Jesus Christ was empty. Scientists have opened the tomb of Christ
The discovery made by scientists in the tomb of Jesus Christ resolved the age-old dispute of historians.
As he wrote, last week, archaeologists from the burial bed of Christ in Kuvuklia - the chapel above the Holy Sepulcher in the Jerusalem Temple of the Resurrection of Christ (Church of the Holy Sepulcher), established in the 16th century and has not been raised since then. The slab over the Lodge was erected due to the fact that in those days the pilgrims tried to break off part of the relic for themselves. After removing the slab, scientists found a lot of stone fragments under it.
According to TASS, after parsing the stones, scientists intkbbee found above them another slab with a carved cross, which, presumably, was installed during the Crusades. At the final stage of the work, archaeologists discovered a burial bed carved in limestone. It turned out that it was preserved intact, despite the fact that the walls of the cave in which it was located were destroyed along with the original building of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at the beginning of the 11th century by order of Caliph Hakim.
As archaeologists have established, the stone on which, according to the Holy Scriptures, the body of Christ rested, remained intact from the moment of its installation.
“We cannot say with 100% accuracy, but there is visible evidence that the tomb has not been moved [since the burial of Christ]. This is something that scientists and historians have been arguing about for centuries,” said archaeologist Fredrik Gibert. His words are quoted by RBC with reference to the National Geographic magazine.
Experts studied the ancient monument for 60 hours until then, and on the evening of October 28, the slab was again installed in its original place.
Scientists managed to conduct a thorough examination and survey of the monument, and their findings were also documented for further study. According to the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, the restoration of Kuvuklia is being carried out by specialists from the National Technical University of Athens in coordination with the staff of the University of Florence and experts from Armenia.
It is known that the burial place of Jesus Christ was discovered three centuries after the Crucifixion by the envoys of the Roman emperor Constantine, who proclaimed Christianity the state religion. The cave in which the Holy Sepulcher was located was found under the foundation of a pagan temple built at the direction of Emperor Hadrian, who ordered the creation of a new colony on the site of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
“We cannot say with absolute certainty that the place where the Church of the Holy Sepulcher stands is the burial place of Jesus, but we certainly do not have another place that would correspond to it so exactly, and we have no reason to deny the authenticity of this place ", - quotes National Geographic Israeli expert on Jerusalem archeology Dana Bahat.
Last week, a video from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher appeared on the Web. The frame shows archaeologists removing a marble slab from the place where, according to legend, Jesus Christ was buried.
Vtrytion of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. VIDEO
According to the Gospel, after the death of Christ, His body was placed in one of the burial caves carved into the mountain. According to the scripture, it was there on the third day that the resurrection of Jesus took place.
St. Helena in the 4th century led excavations on Mount Golgotha. She managed to find there the cross on which Christ was crucified, after which the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was founded on this place.
As it has already become known, restoration work is being carried out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Restoring the tomb of Jesus Christ, scientists removed the marble protective marble slab from the stone on which the body of Christ lay. This slab was installed on the burial bed of Christ's Sepulcher in 1555 to protect the shrine, as the pilgrims tried to chip off a piece of the Holy Sepulcher for themselves, thereby destroying it.
Scientists who removed the marble slab from the burial bed of Christ claim that the basis of this process is the desire to restore the shrine of the Christian world. They also hope to find out how the mother of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine, Saint Elena Equal-to-the-Apostles, learned that this particular place is the Holy Sepulcher.
Some representatives of both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches do not see anything reprehensible in the opening of the burial place of Jesus Christ. For example, the Deputy Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, said that this event is purely in the field of church archeology. “From a religious point of view, I don’t see anything remarkable here at all,” he added.
To the remark that scientists simply want to amuse their own curiosity, the chairman of the synodal missionary department of the Moscow Patriarchate, hegumen Serapion, replied that curiosity is characteristic of a person and he cannot be forbidden to learn something new. “In particular, people are interested in how St. Helena acted when she was looking for the Holy Sepulcher and the Life-Giving Cross, which was the tomb of Jesus,” he explained.
So, neither from a religious nor from a human point of view, this event has no basis for discussion. Is it so? I don't know, I'm not a theologian, but as a simple Orthodox Christian I ask questions that confuse me a lot.
Firstly, was the Tomb of Christ opened only out of curiosity? I highly doubt and am of the opinion that the “researchers” will try to confirm the information from the film “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” shot in 2007 in Canada with all sorts of lies. And in this film, the authors claim that on the basis of strictly "scientific" archaeological and criminological studies, DNA analysis and statistical calculations, it is "proved" that the biblical Jesus is buried in the tomb of Talpiot with his family. As it is now known, Talpiot is a residential complex in Jerusalem. In 1980, a construction team opened a tomb there. The researchers claim that five of the ten coffins found in the Talpiot crypt were inscribed with names believed to be associated with key New Testament figures: Jesus, Mary, Matthew, Joseph, and Mary Magdalene. The sixth inscription, written in Aramaic, is translated as "Judas son of Jesus". This is how “new scientific facts” and supposedly DNA analysis, carried out in one of the most advanced laboratories, appeared, which indicate that the Talpiot tomb contained “the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family - Mary Magdalene and the son of Judas.”
But even if we discard my version of the plans to open the real tomb of Jesus Christ as untenable, there are still many serious questions. First, who needs all this and why? Scientists? What for? To find evidence that this is exactly the Holy Sepulcher? Or do the Christian Churches, which have given permission to conduct scientific experiments on Christ's bed, need scientific proof of the holiness of this place? And it’s not enough for both of them that the Holy Fire descends here every year?
And since it has come to the point that holiness must be confirmed by scientific expertise, then let's take the relics of various saints for DNA analysis and attach a certificate of conformity to them?
But after all, the Holy Sepulcher needs restoration - opponents may object to me. And who could determine that the bed of Christ, hidden for centuries, needs to be restored, and again - why? Maybe a Russophobe Muslim who sponsors terrorists in Syria and supports the massacre of both Muslims and Christians there, King Abdullah II of Jordan? After all, it was he who invested as much as 4 billion dollars (!!!) in the general restoration work in Cuvuklia. Yes, almost all Christian denominations supported the restoration work. But this is embarrassing for me, because the Lord's Sepulcher is the Holy of Holies. And it’s hard for me to imagine that the Holy of Holies of Christians around the world, sponsored by the billionaire thug Abdullah, is invaded by unknown people, trampling their feet on the shrine and justifying this by the need for restoration and research work. And for me - it's just a desecration of the shrine. Have we forgotten how the Bolsheviks "examined" the relics of saints in Russia? But, then, Orthodox Russia, to the best of its ability, stood up to protect its shrines. None of the clergy justified the conduct of such "scientific work", and in general, Christians considered it blasphemy and blasphemy.
And now they are trampling on the Holy Sepulcher - and nothing! Such actions, no matter how they are justified, are a desecration of a holy place, a violation of the law given by the Lord Himself: “And God said: do not come here; put off thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Ex. 3:5)
For the secular world, the opening of the slab of the Holy Sepulcher is an act of desacralization of the greatest shrine of the entire Christian world. In addition, this is an eschatological act that followed the unrecognized, but apparently the last "Ecumenical Council" and the Third World War that had already begun.
With all of the above, I am extremely embarrassed by the silence of the Christian Churches regarding the desecration of the Holy Sepulcher and even their agreement with this. What is this if not a sign of the onset of global apostasy?
If I am wrong in my conclusions, then with Christian humility I ask the readers to correct me and forgive me for the views that are erroneous for an Orthodox person ...
Igor Evsin , Orthodox writer, Ryazan
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It seems that there is one less secret in the world, and it's time for archaeologists and theologians to shake hands - after the opening of the tomb of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, there was no doubt about its authenticity!
Just over a month ago, representatives of six Christian churches allowed experts from National Geographic to lift the marble slab that covered the main shrine of Christians around the world for the first time in many centuries. The goal of archaeologists is to confirm or refute the fact that the alleged tomb of Christ today can be considered the real burial place of Jesus of Nazareth, or that the tomb and its contents have been irretrievably lost to history and believers after numerous earthquakes and destruction of the church by conquerors.
And The Independent journalists report amazing news from the spot:
“After the researchers lifted the marble slab for the first time in 500 years, they discovered another one - limestone, on which, in all likelihood, the body of Jesus Christ lay! But that's not all... Next, the archaeologists discovered a find about which nothing has been known to date - a second gray marble slab with a cross engraved by the Crusaders in the 12th century...”
According to the four Gospels, Jesus was buried in a cave near the place of his crucifixion on Mount Golgotha, which belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. It is known that, according to Jewish tradition, the dead could not be buried within the city, so limestone is a characteristic sign that the burial was outside Jerusalem, surrounded by rocks of this rock. In addition, on Calvary, not far from the current location of the Temple, a quarry was discovered, the stones of which were used to build a burial bed.
“The most surprising thing for us was the discovery of the second marble slab, after we removed the first layer of dust,” says archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert, “it was gray with a cross in the middle, and not like that creamy white marble that sealed the tomb from 1500- years, in order to prevent the theft of the relic ... "
“... When we realized what we had found, our knees trembled! This seems to us a visible proof that the place that pilgrims bow to today is the same tomb that St. Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the dominant religion, found in IV IV!”
Christians believe that three days after the crucifixion, Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. And Fredrik Hiebert witnessed how, after the opening of the tomb, Christian leaders were the first to visit the main shrine:
“They came out with a big smile on their faces! After them, the monks came in and everyone came out smiling. We became very curious. We also entered the tomb and saw a lot of rubble, but no artifacts or bones!”
As you know, restoration work is being carried out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Restoring the tomb of Jesus Christ, scientists removed the protective marble slab from the stone on which the Body of Christ lay. This slab was installed on the burial bed of Christ's Sepulcher in 1555 to protect the shrine, as the pilgrims tried to chip off a piece of the Holy Sepulcher for themselves, thereby destroying it.
Scientists who removed the marble slab from the burial bed of Christ claim that the basis of this process is the desire to restore the shrine of the Christian world. They also hope to find out how the mother of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine, Saint Elena Equal-to-the-Apostles, learned that this particular place is the Holy Sepulcher.
Some representatives of both the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church (which is not surprising - hereinafter in parentheses, the editorial note of the "RF") do not see anything reprehensible in the opening of the burial place of Jesus Christ. For example, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov (known for his liberal views), Deputy Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, stated that this event is purely in the field of church archeology. “From a religious point of view, I don’t see anything remarkable here at all,” he added (frivolously).
To the remark that scientists simply want to amuse their own curiosity, the chairman of the synodal missionary department of the Moscow Patriarchate, hegumen Serapion, replied that curiosity is characteristic of a person and he cannot be forbidden to learn something new. “In particular, people are interested in how Saint Elena acted when she was looking for the Holy Sepulcher and the Life-Giving Cross, which was the tomb of Jesus,” he explained (without a shadow of a doubt).
So, neither from a religious nor from a human point of view, this event has no basis for discussion. Is it so? I don't know, I'm not a theologian, but as a simple Orthodox Christian I ask questions that confuse me a lot.
Firstly, was the Tomb of Christ opened only out of curiosity? I highly doubt and am of the opinion that the “researchers” will try to confirm the information from the film “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” shot in 2007 in Canada with all sorts of lies. And in this film, the authors claim that on the basis of strictly "scientific" archaeological and criminological studies, DNA analysis and statistical calculations, it is "proved" that the biblical Jesus is buried in the tomb of Talpiot with his family. As it is now known, Talpiot is a residential complex in Jerusalem. In 1980, a construction team opened a tomb there. The researchers claim that five of the ten coffins found in the Talpiot crypt were inscribed with names believed to be associated with key figures in the New Testament: Jesus, Mary, Matthew, Joseph and Mary Magdalene. The sixth inscription, written in Aramaic, is translated as "Judas son of Jesus." This is how “new scientific facts” and supposedly DNA analysis, carried out in one of the most advanced laboratories, appeared, which indicate that the Talpiot tomb contained “the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family - Mary Magdalene and the son of Judas.”
But even if we discard my version of the plans to open the real tomb of Jesus Christ as untenable, there are still many serious questions. Who needs all this and why? Scientists? What for? To find evidence that this is exactly the Holy Sepulcher? Or does the Church, which gave permission to conduct scientific experiments on Christ's bed, need scientific proof of the holiness of this place? Is it not enough for both of them that the Holy Fire descends here every year?
And since it has come to the point that holiness must be confirmed by scientific expertise, then let's take the relics of various saints for DNA analysis and attach a certificate of conformity to them?
But after all, the Holy Sepulcher needs restoration - opponents may object to me. And who could determine that the bed of Christ, hidden for centuries, needs to be restored, and again - why? Maybe a Russophobe Muslim who sponsors terrorists in Syria and supports the massacre of both Muslims and Christians there, King Abdullah II of Jordan? After all, it was he who invested as much as 4 billion dollars (!!!) in the general restoration work in Kuvuklia. Yes, the restoration work was supported by almost all Christian denominations. But this is embarrassing for me, because the Lord's Sepulcher is the Holy of Holies. And it’s hard for me to imagine that the Holy of Holies of Christians around the world, sponsored by the billionaire thug Abdullah, is invaded by unknown people, trampling their feet on the shrine and justifying this by the need for restoration and research work. And for me - it's just a desecration of the shrine. Have we forgotten how the Bolsheviks "examined" the relics of saints in Russia? But then Orthodox Russia, to the best of its ability, rose to the defense of its shrines. None of the clergy justified the conduct of such "scientific work", and in general, Christians considered it blasphemy and blasphemy.
And now they are trampling on the Holy Sepulcher - and nothing! Such actions, no matter how they are justified, are a desecration of a holy place, a violation of the law given by the Lord Himself: “And God said: do not come here; put off thy sandals from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Ex. 3:5)
For the secular world, the opening of the slab of the Holy Sepulcher is an act of desacralization of the greatest shrine of the entire Christian world. In addition, this is an eschatological act that followed the unrecognized, but, apparently, the last "Ecumenical Council" and the Third World War that had already begun.
With all of the above, I am extremely embarrassed by the silence of the (Local Orthodox) Churches (and even other "churches", heretical, protecting sodomites, migrants and anyone and anything, but not real shrines) regarding the desecration of the Holy Sepulcher and even agreement with this. What is this, if not a sign of the onset of global apostasy?
If I am wrong in my conclusions, then with Christian humility I ask the readers to correct me and forgive me for the views that are erroneous for an Orthodox person ...
Let us add that the official Orthodox assessment of this blasphemous initiative is already available on the Internet. According to the Russian Calendar website, the diocese of Yekaterinburg commented on the opening of the tomb of Jesus Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem: “For Orthodox Christians, everything that needed to be known has already been learned. And everything that needed to be opened has already been opened. And no new discoveries, except for the Second Coming, are expected in the next few thousand years.
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Archaeologists who removed the marble slab from the burial bed for the first time since 1555 Jesus Christ, which is located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, said that its parts were preserved intact. More, incl.
Archaeologists explore the Holy Sepulcher
Scientists investigating in Jerusalem the place of burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, declared the authenticity of the location of the Holy Sepulcher.
Researchers studying the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem said that, despite all the destruction and reconstruction of the temple, this place is indeed exactly the tomb that Elena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, found in the 4th century, writes The Independent. According to archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert of National Geographic, the contents of the tomb provide complete evidence that the place of worship visited by modern pilgrims is the same tomb discovered in the 4th century. He also added that the temple had been destroyed by fires, earthquakes and invasions over the centuries. “We didn’t know if it was really lined up in the same place every time,” Hibert emphasized. Archaeologists have opened the Holy Sepulcher for the first time in 500 years, removing a marble slab from the burial site of Christ to find out how the tomb originally looked. There they found a limestone shelf, which most likely contained the body of Jesus. Then the researchers saw another slab with a cross, which, in their opinion, was carved by the crusaders.
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Photo: Oded Balilty
"Previously, we couldn't say 100%, but this is visual evidence that the location of the tomb has not changed over time - something that scientists and historians have been thinking about for decades," declared National Geographic archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert.
Photo: Oded Balilty
In addition, archaeologists confirmed the presence of limestone in the walls of the cave inside Kuvuklia, and also made a small window so that believers could see the shrine for the first time in several centuries.
Scientists, conducting research, expect to find out why St. Helena, who excavated in Jerusalem in the 4th century, decided that this tomb is the burial place of Christ.
Photo: Oded Balilty
Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Hegumen Serapion (Mitko) said earlier that the study of the tomb of Jesus Christ could help scientists learn some new historical details. He added that the Russian Orthodox Church "with understanding" reacted to the initiative of archaeologists.
Photo: Oded Balilty
According to the Gospel, after Christ died on the cross on Mount Golgotha, his body was placed in one of the caves carved into the mountain, intended for burial. In it on the third day, according to Scripture, the resurrection of Christ took place.
Excavations at Golgotha in the 4th century were led by Helen Equal to the Apostles, who is believed to have found the cross on which Jesus was crucified, after which she founded the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on this site.
The marble slab was installed on the burial bed of Jesus Christ due to the fact that many pilgrims tried to break off particles of the shrine for themselves.
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Photo: Oded Balilty
“The contents of the tomb provide complete evidence that the place of worship visited by modern pilgrims is the same tomb discovered in the 4th century,” said archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert of National Geographic.
Photo: Oded Balilty
After removing the lid of the tombstone, scientists found a bed of limestone on which the body of Jesus could lie. “The most surprising thing for me was when we found a second piece of marble under a layer of dust. It was gray, not creamy white like the outside, and right in the middle lay a beautiful engraved cross,” the archaeologist said.
Photo: Oded Balilty
According to scientists, the cross was carved by the crusaders in the 12th century. This is what speaks in favor of the version of the authenticity of the tomb.
Photo: Oded Balilty
Hiebert added that it will take months to analyze the resulting data, but the research team hopes to make a virtual reconstruction available for public viewing.
In October, for the first time in 500 years, scientists removed a marble slab from the burial place of Christ, which was installed back in 1555 to protect against pilgrims who sought to chip off a piece of limestone.
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What did scientists see under the marble slab of the Holy Sepulcher?
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