An archaeologist believes that he may have found the childhood home of Jesus Christ. He has evidence that the remains under a convent in Nazareth are probably those of the family home of Mary and Joseph. Ken Dark, a distinguished professor of archaeology and history at Reading University, in the United Kingdom, has spent the last fourteen years investigating a site in Nazareth, which according to the Bible was the town where Jesus grew up. The expert has been painstakingly examining ruins that date from the 1 st century AD. They are the only remains from the era when Jesus lived that have been found in Nazareth.
It has been identified as a private dwelling and it once had a staircase. The site is located under the Sisters of Nazareth Convent which is not far from the Church of the Annunciation, which marks where an angel told Mary that she was pregnant with Jesus. According to the MailOnline, “the dwelling was probably a courtyard house, with living and storage rooms beside a courtyard, and a roof terrace for outside domestic activities.”
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