Tomb Found: Father of John the Baptist?

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Standing 60 feet high, the funerary monument was likely constructed around the time of Jesus for the aristocracy of Jerusalem. Located in the Kidron Valley between Jerusalem's Old City and the Mount of Olives, it has long been in plain view. What hasn't been easily visible is the worn inscription on it.
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The Associated Press reports that thanks to the light of the setting sun that hit the ancient tomb at just the right angle, the 47 Greek letters inscribed in the stone that went unnoticed for centuries suddenly came to life:
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Bad form: you supply two quotes without any means of verifying them. Furthermore, the following appears in the Karen Laub article:
The inscription probably does not mean that the father of the biblical figure is actually buried in the 60-foot-high funerary monument at the foot of the Mount of Olives, say the text's discoverers. But it does give new insight into the local lore surrounding the early figures of the Christian Church.

Scholars say the words were probably written several hundred years after Zachariah's death -- and after the tomb's construction -- by Byzantine Christians.

- see Tomb References John the Baptist's Father, by Karin Laub, July 6, 2003, 7:25 PM EDT
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Did you resist including this information, or simply resist spending the very few minutes required to find it?
 
This is no different than any other ancient tomb. Can historians really prove anything? So only reason why the article mentioned this was to maintain their religious PR. Some greek graffiti on a wall might offend those who claim John the Baptist and the host of bibical characters never existed.


I think this lends more credability to the evangelism of James where Zachariah dies a martyr.
 
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