Many historians have long believed that the original cave, identified a few centuries after Jesus’ death as his tomb, was obliterated ages ago. But an archaeologist accompanying the restoration ...

surrounding a cave that for centuries was considered to be the burial site of Salome, the midwife of Jesus, while they prepare to open it to the public. The cave—located roughly 30 miles ...

First came a prolonged dig led by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) that labelled the site as the Salome Cave, on account of the belief that it served as the resting place for Jesus’s midwife.

The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the Gospels.