Dead for Four Days. What Archaeology Found Beneath Lazarus's Village

The Arabic name of the village has meant "the place of Lazarus" for over a thousand years. John 11 places it two miles from Jerusalem and that is exactly where it sits today. In this episode, we trace the archaeology of Bethany from the rock-cut Second Temple tomb at its heart, through the Byzantine church confirmed by a fourth-century pilgrim's diary, to the Crusader church and the mosque that now stands above it four layers of devotion stacked over a single story. We also explore the domestic world of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, and what the anointing at Bethany tells us about first-century Jewish life on the eve of the Passover.