JERUSALEM: Israel unveiled pilgrims’ lamps and other finds from the so-called Tomb of Salome, a burial site named for a woman said to have assisted at the birth of Christ.
m Ziv Firer, director of an excavation near Jerusalem, heralded the discovery of numerous oil lamps "with beautiful decorations of plants and flowers" in a tomb associated with Salome, who in some traditions is believed to be the midwife of Jesus.
JERUSALEM (AP) An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday.