News from the Field: Gold Hoard Found at Capernaum

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I had not come in search of gold. I was an academician, seeking only to understand. Until 1980, I had been an armchair archaeologist. Then I accepted an invitation to become associate director of the volunteer program of a dig at Capernaum. That summer, I worked in a residential quarter of the city about 200 feet east of Capernaum’s famous ancient synagogue and northeast of the equally famous octagon church built over what may have been St. Peter’s house.a The house I was excavating had been built in the late Byzantine period. Our first discovery was a maze of […]

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Footnotes

See “Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?” BAR 08:06.

A.H. is the abbreviation for After the Hegira. In 622 A D., Muhammed fled from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution. This journey is called the Hegira and is considered to mark the beginning of the Moslem era.

Publication of the Greek Orthodox excavations at Capernaum, east of the Franciscan excavations at the synagogue site, will be under the direction of Dr. Tzaferis assisted by John F. Wilson, Southwest Missouri State University; Ariel Berman, Curator of the Islamic Museum in Jerusalem; Dr. John Laughlin, Averett College; and Dr. Joseph Blenkinsopp, Notre Dame University.