|
THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
|
[Israel Finkelstein] During the Iron Age -- the time of this cemetery --
the dead were buried outside of the limits of the city.
So by plotting the layout of the cemeteries in Jerusalem, what you get in fact is some sort of a circle around an empty area with no tombs. And that empty area, the negative print with no tombs in the center, is in fact the area of the city in the Iron Age.
[Narrator] Localizing these necropoli,
|
