A 2,000-year-old burial cave in Israel is continuing to stir debate. Who exactly was buried here? Was it one of Jesus’ female ...

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A site known as the ‘Cave of Salome’ in the Judaean Foothills might have been the burial site of King Herod’s sister, rather than that of a disciple of Jesus, according to a new paper ...

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the long-held belief that she was laid to rest there.

The cave served as a popular Christian pilgrimage site until at least the ninth century. From there, the cave’s story goes silent until 1982, when looters discovered and broke into it.

The first room of the burial cave dates to the Second Temple period (from the 6th century BCE to 70 CE). Local Christians first identified the site as the burial place of Salome in the Byzantine era.