{"id":2734,"date":"2025-06-02T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mystery-of-jesus-midwife-cave-deepens-as-experts-suggest-it-may-belong-to-royal-princess\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:35:29","slug":"mystery-of-jesus-midwife-cave-deepens-as-experts-suggest-it-may-belong-to-royal-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mystery-of-jesus-midwife-cave-deepens-as-experts-suggest-it-may-belong-to-royal-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of &#039;Jesus\u2019 Midwife&#039; cave deepens as experts suggest it may belong to Royal Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-02 14:35:28<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A sacred cave in Israel long believed to be the burial site of &#8220;Jesus\u2019 midwife&#8221; may actually hold the remains of Salome, sister of King Herod the Great.<BR><br \/>\nLocated about 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem, the so-called &#8216;Cave of Salome&#8217; has drawn Christian pilgrims for centuries who believed it was the tomb of the woman who helped deliver baby Jesus. But fresh digs suggest the site may have links to royalty.<BR><br \/>\nExperts from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Vladik Lifshits and Nir-Shimshon Paran, believe that the cave\u2019s grand design and relics point to it being the burial spot of someone from Herod\u2019s royal clan.<BR><br \/>\nLifshits told Live Science: &#8220;It\u2019s not that I think it must be the tomb of Salome, the sister of Herod. I\u2019m suggesting that this is one of the possibilities.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe cave comes with a grand entrance courtyard, carved burial spots and ancient inscriptions &#8211; the kind of setup that hints it was made for a top-tier figure in first-century BC Judaea, back when it was under Roman control.<BR><br \/>\nThe name &#8220;Salome&#8221; is carved into the rock but researchers warn against jumping to conclusions.<BR><br \/>\nThey said: &#8220;Following the new excavation at the site, and findings at nearby sites, it is suggested that the grandeur burial estate belonged to a member of the royal family.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-02 14:35:28 A sacred cave in Israel long believed to be the burial site of &#8220;Jesus\u2019 midwife&#8221; may actually hold the remains of Salome, sister of King Herod the Great.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}