First-century Focus: Three discoveries in Israel dating to the time of both Jesus’s life and the Great Jewish Revolt against Roman occupation are offering new evidence of life in the Holy Land.

Archaeologists have found the only known burial shroud from a Jesus-era tomb in Jerusalem. Not only is it nothing like the Shroud of Turin, but it also held the world’s earliest known leper.
Mati Milstein in Jerusalem
for National Geographic News
