France reopens ancient Tomb of the Kings to the public for the first time in over a decade
In this Thursday, October 31, 2019 photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews visits the Tomb of the Kings, a large underground burial complex dating to the first century BC, in east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The Tomb of the Kings is an underground burial complex dating to the first century BC and "definitely one of the most elaborately decorated tombs that we have from the early Roman period in Jerusalem," said Orit Peleg-Barkat, a Hebrew University archaeologist. Access to the interior burial chambers is prohibited.
"Altogether, I think there is a scholarly agreement that this tomb should be associated with Helena," said Peleg-Barkat. Yonathan Mizrachi, head of Emek Shaveh, an Israeli organisation against the politicisation of archaeology, said the tomb's location in Sheikh Jarrah is what makes it so "politically problematic" for French authorities.
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