Amanda Borschel-Dan : Jun 14, 2018
Timesofisrael.com
From the first century [BC] until circa second century [AD], burial practices included laying out the dead in niches, and then returning a year later to collect the bones and place them in small ceramic coffins or ossuaries. This is the genesis of the Jewish practice to visit a grave a year after internment.
(Israel)— [Timesofisrael.com] Tiberias Municipality contractors were baffled, as all the concrete they poured into the 20-meter (65 feet) deep foundation holes they had drilled before building a new neighborhood disappeared. (Screengrab of photo: Entrance of a three-room 2,000-year-old burial cave near Tiberias, June 2018/Credit: Miki Peleg, Israel Antiquities Authority/via Times of Israel)
Suddenly, as a mechanical digger exposed a cave entrance, they found their missing concrete—and a unique 2,000-year-old burial cave.
The three-room cave includes a decorated entry way and two burial chambers...
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