For those who are familiar with the Bible, the story of "Jesus from the Nazareth" may have been read and heard many times. The story was written by four of the twelve of Jesus' disciples around two thousand years ago. Like some other stories in the Christian holy book, scientists have always been trying to find as much evidence as possible referring to what was written there.
Recently scientists have found 2 archaeological houses from Nazareth and one of them was believed to be the house where Jesus grew up.
The house was first uncovered by Catholic nuns at the Sisters of Nazareth convent in the 1880s. Later on in 2006 the house was identified by Ken Dark, a lecturer from University of Reading in the UK, as a 2000-year-old house. The house was most likely thought by people living several hundred years after Jesus to be the one where Joseph and Mary's first son spent most of his childhood, before leaving Nazareth to spread the gospel. Like other houses of the era, the walls were made from mortar and stones.
Some supporting facts were also found by the archaeologists. They found that a few hundred years after Jesus, the house was decorated with mosaics and protect the house a church named the "Church of the Nutrition" was built over the house by its ruler at that time known as Byzantine Empire who had control over Nazareth till the 7th century.
During the Crusades in the 11th - 12th century, the church was damaged, but was believed to be repaired by some crusaders.
"This evidence suggests that both the Byzantines and Crusaders believed that this was the home where Jesus was brought up," Dark remarked
There is another piece of evidence that supports the belief. A text that was written by the abbot of the Scottish island monastery named Adomnàn in A.D. 670 says about a church "where once there was the house in which the Lord was nourished in His infancy." The text is believed to be based on Franksih bishop Arcuf's pilgrimage to Nazareth
