Footnote 13 – A Detailed Description of the Garden Tomb Burial Cave

The escarpment runs generally north-south, winding northwest as it continues northward into the courtyard of the Monastery of St. Étienne. At the end of this northwest bend, in the courtyard of St. Étienne, lies the entrance to Burial Cave Complex Number 1—the most elaborate burial cave known from the period of the kings of Judah.