Tiberias Dig Unearths Very Rare Marble Floor

Haaretz ^ | 4-8-2005 | Eli Ashkenazi

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Tiberias dig unearths very rare marble floor

By Eli Ashkenazi

A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias.

According to archaeologist Professor Yizhar Hirschfeld, director of the three-week dig that ended yesterday, the floor is apparently a remnant of a pavement in the palace of Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, who ruled the Galilee from 4 BCE to 38 CE.

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GGG Ping.

[bmwcyle]

Is there a spot of dried blood from the head of John the Baptist?

[Eagle of Liberty]

4 BCE to 38 CE

Well that journalism update didn't take long to take hold. Amazing how far PC will go to eliminate religion from history.

[MAEsser]

Tiberius?

[Monterrosa-24]

And what event cause this break in time? Before the Current Era is before the birth of ??? This PC business is going to lots of trouble to achieve nothing, even for the idiotic PC crowd.

[yatros from flatwater]

It really is more historically accurate to use BCE and CE, as the year count doesn't relate to any significant person's birth year. So, to reckon it as the start date of the common calendar or common era is not just politically correct, it's factual.

[uglybiker]

It's where his ancient ancestors learned the art of the shoulder-roll.

[Lurking Libertarian]

4 BCE to 38 CE

This is a story from an Israeli newspaper. Jews use the BCE/CE dating system.

[wideawake]

The paper is Ha'aretz, an Israeli publication.

It is extremely rare in Israel to ever see BC and AD used to date anything.

[FeeinTennessee]

I agree, I was gonna mention that. It disgusts me. I am fine with B.C. and A.D.

[3dognight]

It really is more historically accurate to use BCE and CE, as the year count doesn't relate to any significant person's birth year. So, to reckon it as the start date of the common calendar or common era is not just politically correct, it's factual.

So what separates the "common era" from the period previous to that?????

[kimmie7]

I am so sick of CE being shoved down our throats.

[Nam Vet]

"It also uncovered a street from the Roman-Byzantine period, mosaics, and COINS BEARING THE IMAGE OF JESUS."

I don't know about anyone else, but this seemed to jump out at me.

Nam Vet

[orionblamblam]

> So what separates the "common era" from the period previous to that?????

People started keeping track with a common system.

[babble-on]

when did someone shove it down your throat? I see that terminology maybe once or twice a year, at most.

[Monterrosa-24]

There are lots of Jews who use BC and AD just as there are lots of Christians who use the names of months and days named after Roman Gods/planets.

[3dognight]

I don't think so you revisionists.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce.htm

[OneTimeLurker]

See, Jews don't believe in Jesus as the messiah so they don't use BC and AD. In fact, the Jewish calander is at 5767 I believe. This is not PC but how Israel dates things. CE is Common Era and BCE is Before Common Era.

[SusaninOhio]

Jumped out at me also - I thought no one was positive what He looked like and I look forward to seeing these coins eventually.

Maybe I should renew my National Geographic and Smithsonian subscriptions. Sooner or later one of them will do a story with pictures about that dig -