And yet for ages, the tomb that sits at the center of history has captured the imaginations of millions around the world. “We saw where Jesus Christ was laid down,” Father Isidoros Fakitsas, the superior of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, told me. Now we saw with our own eyes the actual burial place of Jesus Christ.”For 60 hours, they collected samples, took photographs and reinforced the tomb before resealing it, perhaps for centuries to come. By the time I visited one dark night this week, the tomb had already been closed again. A small window had just been installed opposite the tomb to show the original cave walls where Jesus is believed to have been buried.

Source: New York Times November 03, 2016 09:33 UTC