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Site of John the Baptist’s Death in the Bible Discovered?

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John the Baptist Tomb

The tomb of Saint John the Baptist at a Coptic monastery in Lower Egypt, where the bones of the preacher were said to have been found. (Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Lollylolly78~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Archaeologists claim that they have identified the deadly dance floor where John the Baptist — a preacher who foretold the coming of Jesus — was sentenced to death around A.D. 29.

The Bible and the ancient writer Flavius Josephus (A.D. 37-100) both describe how King Herod Antipas, a son of King Herod, had John the Baptist executed. Josephus specified that the execution took place at Machaerus, a fort near the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan.

Herod Antipas feared the growing influence of John the Baptist among the population and so he executed him Josephus wrote. The Bible, on the other hand, tells a far more elaborate tale, claiming that Herod Antipas had John the Baptist executed in exchange for a dance.

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