Excavation near site where Jesus was crucified and buried results in ancient discovery

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says "many surprises" from the site are in the works.

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and grapevines. The specimens date back roughly 2,000 years.

The discovery echoes the New Testament verse John 19:41, "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid."

Francesca Stasolla, an archaeology professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, confirmed the findings with Fox News Digital on Wednesday. She said the proof of the ancient garden came in the form of seeds and pollen.

Calvary, the site where the church stands, had multiple uses in ancient times, including being used as a quarry.

While the exact age of the organic material has yet to be determined, Stasolla said the pollen and seeds date back "in between the use of the quarry and the Roman age, when the area had a funerary use."

"The quarry had to be gradually abandoned and as the stone extraction ended it was used for agricultural areas and tombs," Stasolla said. "This must have been what it looked like in the 1st century A.D."

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says "many surprises" from the site are in the works.

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...

It's all in the timing, just ask a comedian. Doc "Holy Day" died on April 1st, one year to the day from the passing of the last USS Arizona survivor, Lou Conter:

Nation's Men Honor Val Kilmer By Quoting ‘Tombstone’ All Day Like Usual

Literal proof:

In mathematics, the tombstone, halmos, end-of-proof, or Q.E.D. symbol "∎" (or "□") is a symbol used to denote the end of a proof, in place of the traditional abbreviation "Q.E.D." for the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum".
Tombstone (typography)

Q.E.D. or QED is an initialism of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "that which was to be demonstrated". Literally, it states "what was to be shown".[1]

Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is complete...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.

The Hebrew side of the Q.E.D. page shows that Q.E.D. is a "מש"ל":

מש"ל או מ.ש.ל הוא ראשי תיבות של הביטוי מה שצריך להוכיח או מה שרצינו להוכיח.

מש"ל או מ.ש.ל ...‎‎an‎‎ acronym ‎‎for the phrase‎‎ "what needs to be proved‎‎" or‎‎"what we wanted to prove‎‎."

The Hebrew Q.E.D. letters spell mashal:

A mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short proverb[1] or parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashal_(allegory)

There's always got to be one out there, always speaking in parables.

It's like when Joseph proved to Pharaoh that he was the one, by his being able to extemporaneously rattle off the problem as well as the solution. Joseph was saying without even intending to say:

"I'm your huckleberry."

(Proof of an ancient garden)

Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

> It's all in the timing

Another thing about April 1st. An admittedly anachronistic thing, but "AD" or "BC" are equally anachronistic when applied to this period and nobody blinks over their use. Arguably the original Good Friday was an April 1st, at least in comparison to modern usage. I understand there is some debate whether the Crucifixion took place in ‘31AD’ or ‘33AD’. I’m impressed by the arguments for the latter, but then I haven’t yet to see a good presentation of the former so may be wrong. But if the latter is the year then one particular Friday is the result. Most often its date is presented per the Roman (Julius Caesar’s) solar calendar or by the Jewish lunar calendar. But nowadays nearly everyone uses the more astronomically accurate Gregorian solar calendar, shorter by 3 days per 400 years than Caesar’s. Adding ‘2000’ to the Julian ‘date’ but citing the it in Gregorian terms results in a 15 day error. But if you add 1992 Gregorian years to that particular Friday you get Tuesday April 1st 2025. Add 8 more such for a rounder 2000th anniversary of Good Friday and you actually get another Friday in 2033. Thus, arguably, Good Friday was April 1st, 33AD Gregorian. Thus were we ‘fools’ saved.

The theorists are doing it wrong.

You, however, make an excellent point for the simplicity of the message concept as it connects with today's reality on the ground (of calendar days, modern holidays):

"Thus were we ‘fools’ saved."

The *fact* is that the longstanding tradition is that Good Friday was April 3, AD 33 (Julian). Perhaps that wasn't the date, but that's the common tradition.

And based on that fact, which transcends the arguments themselves, it was April 1 for the Gregorian date reverse engineered.

Calendar Converter

Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

If people only knew what insight comes from a foundation of facts -- even counter-intuitively when it is a fact of something being a tradition -- they'd be shocked for what sits in plain sight.

On a personal connection, yesterday in my own studies I'd noticed this:

🙋 How many emoji characters are there?
👉 In total there are 3,790 emojis in the Unicode Standard, as of September 2024. The most recent emoji release is Emoji 16.0, which added 8 new emojis.
https://emojipedia.org/faq

Hence I had been drawn to the memory of NT dates because I already knew that Hebrew year 3790 was (fall to fall) AD 29-30.

Which according to the AD 33 Good Friday date, would have been the beginning of Jesus' teaching timeline, regardless of what anyone thinks of him personally.

~ Fall of AD 29: baptism, 40 weary days in the wilderness, the "I'm here" scene in the synagogue in Nazareth in Luke 4...

1995 years later from year 3790 for the new 3790 emoji total (by adding 8 more):

(they'd be shocked for what sits in plain sight)

Splatter

🆕

Approved in September 2024 as part of Emoji 16.0. Expected to arrive on platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025.

A chaotic splash of an unknown liquid, possibly thick or viscous like paint. Generally colored purple.

Splatter was approved as part of Unicode 16.0 in 2024 and added to Emoji 16.0 in 2024.

https://emojipedia.org/splatter

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If anyone read/remembers my posts about the highways in Corpus Christi, the cross of 286 and 358...

(cf. the Northern Cross asterism within Cygnus the Swan constellation, the wings)

My own memory is jogged from something I learned quite a long while ago (I play on maps every day):

As in, where does 286 actually end (286 -- it was all over the news recently):

Splatter Action Paintball
2110 TX-286, Corpus Christi, TX 78415

A cruise into earlier street view dates shows even more paint splatter decor on the main building, not just the shed. Oct 2021 is a good one.

Looking just like that emoji.

Needles in haystacks -- they find *me*.

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