08/28/2026
🚨JUST IN: Archaeologists just found a 2,000-year-old GARDEN under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — matching the Gospel of John.
Excavations beneath the church floor in Jerusalem uncovered ancient garden soil, olive traces, and gr**evines from around the time of Jesus.
John 19:41 says: “Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb…”
That is exactly the landscape they found: a former quarry outside the old city walls, later turned into cultivated plots, with rock-cut tombs nearby.
The work was led by Professor Francesca Romana Stasolla of Sapienza University during a routine restoration of the historic church floor. A new report this week completed the picture from years of digging.
They found the garden the Bible described — right where the church has stood for 1,700 years.