Archaeologists find possible site of Jesus’s trial in Jerusalem

Washington Post ^ | January 4, 2015 | By Ruth Eglash

[Brad from Tennessee]

JERUSALEM — It started 15 years ago with plans to expand the Tower of David Museum. But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem’s Old City.

They knew it had been used as a prison when the Ottoman Turks and then the British ruled these parts. But, as they carefully dug down, they eventually uncovered something extraordinary: the suspected remains of the palace where one of the more famous scenes of the New Testament may have taken place — the trial of Jesus.

Now, after years of excavation and a further delay caused by wars and a lack of funds, the archaeologists’ precious find is being shown to the public through tours organized by the museum.

The prison “is a great part of the ancient puzzle of Jerusalem and shows the history of this city in a very unique and clear way,” said Amit Re’em, the Jerusalem district archaeologist, who headed the excavation team more than a decade ago. . .

[PIF]

If it ever comes to that - there will only be AM as nothing which happened before Mohammed matters, or is irrelevant, or is superfluous ... just as any work or idea mentioned in the koran is unneeded and can be destroyed, or any work or idea not mentioned in the koran is anathema and must be destroyed ...

[Bigg Red]

That is exactly how I read “BCE” and “CE”.

The Christ-haters can all take a hike.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ConservativeMind.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I don’t know why anyone would purchase products made by Apple. They are junk. Stick with Windows.

[Kenny Bunk]

Please leave me out of the TREK vs. Specialized debate. How ‘bout those Patriots?

[dinodino]

What are you talking about?

[Smokin' Joe]

It would be an odd sort of timekeeping which arbitrarily (just happened to) choose the year of Christ's Birth as the zero point but refused to acknowledge that His Birth was the pivotal event.

Funny how those folks end up tripping over themselves.

I have read "CE" to mean Christian Era as well, and refuse to do otherwise.