Jerusalem, Oct 28: Researchers have uncovered a stone slab in Jerusalems Church of the Holy Sepulchre venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ, a media report said. The slab, which has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 A.D., has been exposed as part of a major restoration project at the church, according to the tiol Geographic magazine. “The marble covering of the tomb has been pulled back, and we were surprised by the amount of fill material beneath it,” Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the tiol Geographic Society and a partner in the restoration project, told the magazine. “It will be a long scientific alysis, but we will filly be able to see the origil rock surface on which, according to tradition, the body of Christ was laid.”
The rock surface, or “burial bed” was hewn from the side of a limestone cave following Christ’s crucifixion, according to Christian tradition. Christ’s resurrection from the dead is a core tenet of Christian belief - the gospels say that the tomb was found to be empty by those who visited it a few days after the crucifixion, Fox News reported. (IANS)