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On the ascent of the Mount of Olives is a burial place, which from immemorial time has been regarded as containing the remains of Haggai, Zechariah, and
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Research shows that the complex actually dates from the 1st century BCE, when this style of tombs came into use for Jewish burial. Some Greek inscriptions discovered at the site suggest the cave was re-used to bury foreign
Christians during the 4th and 5th centuries CE. On one of the side walls of
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Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, which are frequently visited by the
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prophets who are believed to have lived during the 6th–5th centuries BC. Archaeologists have dated the three earliest burial chambers to the first century BC, thus contradicting the tradition.
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154:Site notes
108:35°14′35″E
105:31°46′35″N
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258:Zechariah
250:Jerusalem
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177:Ownership
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