Jerusalem in the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of jesus a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it.
Marble tomb of jesus.
During this work the archaeologists opened the tomb of jesus for the first time in centuries it has been sealed with marble slabs since at least a d.
On this point the ancient eyewitnesses agree.
The tomb in which they buried jesus of nazareth was empty that first easter morning.
Lifting the tomb s marble lid for the first time in 500 years researchers discovered the limestone shelf where jesus s body was thought to have been placed the mirror reported.
The tomb is a limestone shelf or burial bed hewn from the wall of a cave national geographic reports covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 a d it was exposed oct.
26 as part of a major.
1555 to prevent damage from visitors.
Members of the conservation team lift a stone to clean and digitally scan before reinstalling it on the façade of the edicule the shrine that houses what is believed to be the tomb of jesus.
The stone slab was inside a chamber of jesus s tomb in the church of the holy sepulchre in jerusalem the surface encased in marble since at least 1555 ad was exposed during restoration work last.
1 the vast majority of modern scholars critical or otherwise also agree.