Skull Hill or Holy Sepulchre

[Clete]

It's a little hard to see

Over 40 sucks!

 

[Right Divider]

Over 40 sucks!

Just wait until you're 70

 

[JudgeRightly]

Over 40 sucks!

I'm not THAT old!

 

[Nick M]

I think this is the most dramatic. The valley to the east is filled in, and that is the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. And it isn't possible. But if you continue on Mount Moriah northwest, that is the where the garden tomb is and skull hill.

 

[Idolater]

They found garden soil under the Holy Sepulcher I guess, confirming the tomb being in a garden.

 

[Nick M]

They found garden soil under the Holy Sepulcher I guess, confirming the tomb being in a garden.

This is the cistern which held water used for the garden. It is under the Garden Tomb. And that is why it is called the garden tomb.



Wikipedia says this, so you know the opposite is true.

More recently, the Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay points out that the tomb does not contain any features indicative of the 1st century AD, when Jesus was buried, and argues that the tomb was likely created in the 8th–7th centuries BCE.[5] The Italian archeologist Ricardo Lufrani argues instead that it should be dated to the Hellenistic era, the 4th–2nd centuries BCE. The re-use of old tombs was not an uncommon practice in ancient times, but this would seem to contradict the biblical text that speaks of a newly hewn tomb which Joseph of Arimathea made for himself (Matthew 27:57–60, John 19:41).

Also, the Garden Tomb is unfinished. It was a new tomb, and has not been used since. And as pointed out many times, Helena's location is not on Mount Moriah, and not possible. It is over the valley which is filled in now.