Archeologist uncovers Jesus' possible 1st-century Nazareth childhood home

A British archaeologist has uncovered Jesus Christ's possible 1st-century Nazareth childhood home.

Ken Dark believes he may have identified the humble home in northern Israel, as the place where Mary and Joseph brought up Christ, the Daily Express reported.

In his article, Dark, who has been researching the ruins since 2006, said that there was no good reason why the courtyard style house, located beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, across the road from the Church of Annunciation, was not the home of Jesus.

He described the property, which was first identified as a site of special significance in the 1880s, as being cut out of limestone and having a series of rooms and a stairway.

In the article Dark wrote that great efforts had been made to encompass the remains of this building within the vaulted cellars of both the Byzantine and Crusader churches, so that it was thereafter protected. Both the tombs and the house were decorated with mosaics in the Byzantine period, suggesting that they were of special importance, and possibly venerated. A pilgrim text, called 'De Locus Sanctis,' is said to be the key evidence linking the site to Jesus Christ and is supposedly based on a pilgrimage made to Nazareth by a bishop who talked about a church where once there was the house in which the Lord was nourished in his infancy.

Dark explained that it then describes two churches in Nazareth, one of which was the Church of Annunciation, writing the other stood nearby and was built near a vault that also contained a spring and the remains of two tombs. Between these two tombs was the house in which Jesus was raised.

The study is published in journal the Biblical Archaeological Review.