Three days before Jesus Christ's resurrection, on what's people believed that Jesus Christ's grave where he lay dead on a marble door strands. As early as 1959, agreement to have this marble cover was taken out of the grave's restoration and repair had begun. The incredible site of the Messiah’s burial bed after 500 long years of marveling, this year, the petition has finally been accepted and a team of archaeologists from National Geographic was finally able to observe this. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, where the holy site is placed, Archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert start the long-overdue restoration project over this.Hiebert stated that no one can be actually certain that what is supposed to be Jesus Christ's tomb stood correctly in the accurate same spot as it stands now: In an Inside report, Hiebert stated that
“The shrine has been destroyed many times by fire, earthquakes, and invasions over the centuries. We didn’t really know if they had built it in exactly the same place every time.”We all know that Jesus Christ’s tomb in its original form is nothing but a bedrock, from the Bible stories and scriptures. Archaeologists have worked hard to create the Edicule or “small house” around it for its protection, over the years. Hiebert also made clear about the procedure of the archaeologists had to go through just to start the pilgrimage site’s restoration project:
“Everything has to be approved by the committee, so even changing a candle takes a long time. There is a ladder by the main entrance to the church that hasn’t moved in 240 years, and they still haven’t reached a decision. It’s called the immovable ladder. So the fact we were finally allowed to carry out this work is a triumph of negotiation.”
Taking the work accomplished was difficult. While working through a half-millennial’s worth of dust, just to get the marble cover out of the way without breaking it, it took the NetGeo team no less than 35 experts and 60 hours: Hiebert said We were all getting really curious. Then we went in, looked into the tomb and saw a lot of rubble. So it wasn’t empty, even though there were no artifacts or bones.
“The most amazing thing for me was when we removed the first layer of dust and found a second piece of marble. This one was gray, not creamy white like the exterior, and right in the middle of it was a beautifully inscribed cross. We had no idea that was there.”Hiebert explained what it was alike for an archaeologist to exist in such a historic moment:
“When we realized what we had found my knees were shaking a little bit.”What can you say about this? Let us know what you think and feel and share with us.
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