Garden Tomb

The Garden Tomb (Bustān Qabr al-Masīḥ, lit. 'the Garden of the Tomb of Christ', Gan ha-Kéver, lit. 'Garden of the Tomb') is an ancient rock-cut tomb surrounded by a garden, right outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem, that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other Protestants, as some Protestant Christians consider it to be the empty tomb where Jesus of Nazareth resurrected. This is in contrast to an older tradition that locates the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus at a site roughly 600 metres (0.37 mi) to the south known as Golgotha and located within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Garden Tomb and its surrounding gardens are adjacent to a rocky outcrop known as Skull Hill (Tallat al-Jumjumah, Giv'át ha-Gulgólet). In the mid-nineteenth century, some Christian scholars proposed that Skull Hill is Golgotha, where the Romans crucified Jesus. A few decades later, in 1867, the Garden Tomb was discovered and later proposed to be the tomb of Jesus. More recently, the Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay points out that the tomb does not contain any features indicative of the 1st century CE, when Jesus was buried, and argues that the tomb is likely to ha

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