Have We Found Jesus' Childhood Home?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Thursday, March 05, 2015

Archaeologists in Nazareth say a first century house discovered in the 1880s could be the home of Mary and Joseph where Jesus was brought up.

"Was this the house where Jesus grew up? It is impossible to say on archaeological grounds," writes Ken Dark, a professor at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, in Biblical Archaeology Review, referring to a first century "courtyard house" containing limestone pottery that was first uncovered in the 1880s by nuns at the Sisters of Nazareth convent, according to Live Science.

It was Dark who led a team of archaeologists in 2006 that dated the house to the first century.
The team also discovered that the people who lived there centuries after Jesus' time believed Jesus was brought up in that house.