A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds. The idea ...

Here’s how it works. A cave in Israel said to be the burial place of Salome, Jesus' midwife, has yielded more of its secrets, according to archaeologists who have unearthed inscriptions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.