Secret Holy Land of Ethiopia | Cities of the Underworld (S3, E9) | Full Episode | History

a thousand miles from jerusalem  is another holy land ethiopia there are countless bodies all before me  i've never seen anything like this in my life   rugged and isolated you see this it's that hell  it's a secret vault of ancient christian mysteries   inside the small guarded church is the final  resting place of the ark of the covenant   hidden in subterranean monuments we're inside the  rock that they carved yes inside the rocks and   nine thousand feet in the air you  fall off that you are gone christ's   underground kingdom is revealed on cities  of the underworld ethiopia secret holy land capital of ethiopia it's called the cradle of  humanity it's one of the oldest nations on earth   little is understood about the vast kingdoms  that ruled this land for thousands of years   but during biblical times their remote highlands  were an important safe haven for refugees escaping   persecution and war in faraway lands  relatively little study has been done here so   as this developing land moves slowly into the 21st  century many of its deepest and darkest secrets   can still only be found in the underground   today ethiopia is a remote landlocked east african  nation a religious time capsule so isolated that   christians here still worship in ways that  would be familiar to jesus's first disciples   christianity began to spread from jerusalem to the  ancient world in the 2nd century a.d as believers   preached the gospel and converted new members  the first conversions in ethiopia were in the   4th century and the new religion caught on by  the 12th century christianity was the dominant   religion here its holiest city lalibella  was a pilgrimage site modeled on jerusalem this is the village of lalibella and  while it might not look like it today   this was once the seat of a huge ancient  kingdom at this time this is the 12th century   the world was a radically changing place  muslim armies had captured and conquered   a huge swath of north africa and the middle east  including the holy city of jerusalem as a result   christians here were completely cut off  isolated from the rest of the christian world   the king here king lalibella set out to  create a new jerusalem here in the underground   i'm meeting up with a guy named fikro waldegorges  who's lived here all his life in la bella hey   don welcome nice to meet you  every year at christmas time   70 thousand pilgrims journey to  the small farming town of lalibella   because of the vision of the man who ruled here  800 years ago king lalibella lalibella was the   devout christian leader of the zogway dynasty  a royal family as powerful as the medicis   during his reign ethiopia was relatively peaceful  but the holy land was a war zone as saladin's   muslim army and european crusaders battled for  control pilgrimages to jerusalem became nearly   impossible and ethiopians were cut off from  the spiritual center of their religion then   according to church lore king lalibella had a  dream in which god called on him to build a new   jerusalem a safe place of worship for his people  for this if you look at down here yeah there's a   church called saint george so you can only see the  roof from here ah look at that this is the church   saint george the roof of the church is actually  the ground that was just the level of the ground   st george is one of 11 churches sunken up to 50  feet beneath the surface of the earth and the   layout of the churches honors the key moments in  the life of jesus christ a cluster of six churches   to the north stand for jerusalem the city of his  death four to the south represent his birthplace   bethlehem and between them runs an artificial  chasm named the river jordan after the spot   where jesus was baptized all of them are connected  by a warrant of subterranean tunnels and trenches   today these churches are known as the eighth  wonder of the world this is the way down they   the way down there is the stretch down  here so the zogways move their capital   here to the south and king lalibella decides  to create a new jerusalem digging underground so so there's actually a service going on right  now i mean these churches are all still very much   active what they're doing here this  morning they've been doing a thousand years   tell me about this rock yeah it's it's a volcanic  rock okay called the tufa tufa so the nature of   the rock is actually easy to cut in jerusalem  builders had limestone wood and marble at their   disposal here they had durable easy to carve tufa  rock and they made the most of it digging down to   depths between 35 and 50 feet from the surface  the 12th century builders extracted stone from   all sides of the church leaving a monolith  inside a man-made canyon then they carved   out the inside of the building like a pumpkin  and carefully crafted the exterior details   they've gotten exact angles and precise corners  if they i mean if you made a mistake while were   doing this it was well that's that's really the  thing there's no way to rebuild it if you made   a mistake that's all right church chronicles  dating back to the 15th century claim that   angels helped the workers here build this  massive and miraculously precise church   and 10 others like it removing 150 000 tons of  rock over 23 years over a hundred clergymen live   here today just as they did in the 12th century  administering the rights of birth and death   so all around here i'm noticing these these  holes these actions oh yeah that was just a grave   look at here even look like coffin has got a  coffin oh yeah shape so these were filled with   coffins that's filled with coffins look at here  now there's a bone here wow the bodies of the   faithful who may have come here to die in this  sacred spot have no names there are no written   records for lalibela from the time only legends  orally passed down through generations we are   allowed to join the followers of saint george's  church but we must pay the proper respects so   you take your shoes off at every church yes  and all the fish all right let's go inside oh it's beautiful wow so this is all an open space here we're inside  the rock that they carved yes inside the rock so   where we stand i was just solid rock unlike the  church in rome alexandria or constantinople the   ethiopian orthodox rites were virtually untouched  by the outside world for almost a thousand years   they are a window to a time when early  christianity was just evolving from   ancient judaism here the beliefs are  christian while many of the traditions   are jewish just as in orthodox synagogues today  women and men are kept separate during services   and all the worshipers sit facing the holy land of  jerusalem back here is holy of holi where it has   a copy of the arc of the covenant every jewish  temple holds the sacred scrolls of the torah   while every church in ethiopia has  a replica of the ark of the covenant   the chest reputed to hold the original tablets  inscribed by god with the ten commandments and   given to moses you have to see more than judaism  influence like having separation for men and women   if you look at the evidence that nanny table  we don't eat like pork or we don't it's okay   so there's a stronger stronger tie to the judaic  christianity i mean we practice christianity we   believe in christ but you see the traditions  of judaism too interesting we can still see   how people worshipped here 800 years ago but there  are no hard facts about these churches one mystery   lies under the northwest cluster of churches  known as jerusalem so st george is just one of   11 churches they're all organized in clusters  further up this way is a whole nother group   this group of six raccoon churches are all  connected by a labyrinth of tunnels and trenches   can i pull this off can we go in here rarely  used today their original purpose is unknown   did the builders dig down for engineering reasons  or was there some threat real or imagined that   drove them out of sight underground there's a  tunnel going down here but there's another one   up above so basically it's a whole labyrinth of  connections each one leading to another church whoa there's about 150 bats in this little place  oh man we gotta go down there oh it's just too   cool you wanna just squeeze the camera through and  i'll just help you get it through here i got it   all right got it okay yeah  you see this it's that hell so look at this round room in here  with a single pillar in the middle   i'm frank i'm a little freaked out  but it's bad thing tell the truth   that door is blocked off now but that goes through  to the church of golgotha you gotta wonder why   it was so important to this culture to be  underground i mean on one hand it was a   practicality because they had so much of this  good rock to work with they could carve an   entire complex they never needed any trees  perfect but there had to have been another   advantage we know the role that faith played in  building la bella but the rest remains a mystery according to legend 800 years ago king lalibella  had 11 churches carved out of solid rock here   in northern ethiopia conceived as a new jerusalem  the elaborate churches have been sacred pilgrimage   sites for nearly a thousand years but a leading  expert on lalibela believes they may have served   another darker purpose now remember the churches  of lalibella are arranged in different clusters   those down in that area are more for typical  religious purposes but these over here   closer to us these look a lot more like fortresses the vast church complexes in lalibella were  built in three distinct sections the areas i   had already seen with lalabella expert fukru were  clearly designed and built as places of worship   but it seems as if some of the four  churches at the southeast end of the   complex were built centuries earlier not to  welcome pilgrims but to withstand a siege   one of the clues is a tunnel system that connects  the southeast cluster to the rest of the complex look at this tunnel going straight down  here there's a debate whether this is   military or not up here but it sure has look of it how long is this about 55 meters 55 meters over  150 feet yeah um and connecting through to here   this one yeah in ancient times i mean these  underground passages provided a perfect defense   because if you were being attacked the the army  attacking you would have to come in single file so   it would break down the attacker to one man  at a time much easier to defend the long   tunnel system in the southeast cluster leads  to the gabriel and raphael churches which   are completely surrounded by a hand-carved  trench ranging from 15 to over 50 feet deep   so this looks like a defensive wall i mean this is  carved out right and the skull goes all the way to   the other side too and this waterway here would  have been like a moat yeah this is like a motor   or you can set like drainage close all the way  down you can yeah a perfect defense posture here   in the 12th century when king lalibella built his  new jerusalem in the remote mountains of ethiopia   his zogway kingdom was relatively isolated from  the turmoil gripping the holy land of jerusalem   1400 miles north but 500 years earlier in the 7th  century arab armies were on the march to the north   and internal strife was crumbling the once great  axomite empire who ruled here and it seems as if   some parts of the southeast cluster were built in  that turbulent time this looks like a drawbridge   so far i mean the main access or entrance of the  church has not been discovered yet so this is the   only access that we have to go in like a medieval  castle this church only has one way in a bridge 50   feet up another clue pointing to military origins  and like a fortress prepared for a long siege it   may also have had its own water supply my lord  how deep is this thing that's really very deep   you know like water system under  it yeah that's what that is   in the rainy season this cistern could  collect enough water to last the people here   for months if this was as much a fortress as a  church then that could have been a water supply   for a siege yes it could be for the church or for  fortification so we don't know exactly what it was   but it's totally unique and other churches  don't differ from the others so what happened   the other church is just holy water not like as  water system and here makes you wonder huh yeah   today the only access to the cistern is 50 feet  below the churches in one of the numerous water   channels that snake through the entire site ah  this is so cool all right so keep in mind this is   the dry season we're in here rainy season we can't  walk through here this would be all full of water   most of the year this is an arid region where  water can be more precious than gold but in the   rainy season sudden storms could wreak havoc with  flooding so building a massive hydroengineering   system that could move flood waters out while  collecting some of the life-giving water made la   lalibela's isolated existence possible the complex  collects and stores huge reserves of both rain   and artesian spring water and if the people here  were afraid of attack from outsiders or infidels   an enormous reservoir of water would be essential  all right wow look at this church incredible   now who knows really what they were using this  for i mean these could be defensive walls for   military use but this is the cistern now this  is completely unique in lalabella from what   fukru tells me this entire floor here is all a  cistern space beneath it is almost 30 feet across   see that's me right there hello so this is  going underwater and we're gonna see if we can   look at the underwater of  the underworld there she goes oh yeah that's cool i mean all of this is filled  with fresh water and we're in the dry season   and you can enable a whole population of people  maybe even soldiers maybe a defending army who is   being besieged inside of this church fortress  this is the water that would keep them alive these channels still work collecting and  distributing water but we may never know if they   were intended for irrigation or defense against  some long vanished threat check it out look at   this all these strange spaces this is a river  channel also hand carved rock hewn right down   here would have steered all this rain water right  through this channel and down to the river jordan   everything seems to be speculation in  this place because the records are gone   rock can't be carbonated no one knows i  mean lolli bella still a total mystery in the time of jesus christ while the  roman empire was spreading across the world   there was another mighty empire on  the rise the axomites of ethiopia   i'm heading to a mountainous region more than 300  miles north of addis to the city of aksum now a   small farming town it was once the rich capital  city of a mighty empire that dominated much of   northeastern africa for 600 years tradition has  it that the aksomite kings traced their lineage   back to king solomon and even claimed that his  son brought the ark of the covenant at the time   a jewish relic believed to have mysterious  powers to ethiopia in the 10th century bc   the axomites linked to king solomon as  evidenced by their exclusive claim to the ark   of the covenant did two important things one it  helped give their kings legitimacy to the throne   and two it helped create an entirely singular  unique brand of christianity now some of the   only clues left of this one-time world  power are located right across the street   in a field of obelisks and inside  the mysterious tombs of a lost empire i'm meeting with a guy named he's one of the best  experts in this area on the relatively unknown   history of the axomite empire lebron hi dan nice  to meet you you too so this was the center of the   axonite empire yes like egypt aksum was one of  the ancient world's great empires for 600 years   from the 1st century a.d to the 7th century  a.d they mastered major trade routes between   india and the mediterranean and across the red sea  exporting luxury goods like ivory spices and gold   proof of the axomites wealth and power is  here a field of over 120 towering obelisks   including the largest monolithic stone in the  ancient world the grave markers of axomite royalty   erected sometime in the 400 years after the birth  of christ they weigh up to 500 tons and each was   cut from a single stone and hauled here some say  by elephants from miles away so these monuments   these obelisks are massive why are they here they  are here to mark tombs for the royal family okay   rising up to 80 feet each stone was typically  supported by a foundation measuring roughly 10   percent of its total height and bolstered  on two sides by gigantic horizontal stones   surrounding the central foundation are several  underground rooms used to entomb the dead and seal   away incredible riches war and lack of resources  have made archaeology a luxury in modern ethiopia   and 90 of these tombs are still unexplored this  is insanely huge like the pyramids in egypt   this elaborately carved steely marks the final  resting place for a king who is as formidable   as any pharaoh so these are the windows these are  the beams so this is essentially the replica of a   palace a royal palace smite royal palace for the  royals who are buried beneath it yes exactly these   massive stones were only grave markers it was in  the rooms below that they would spend eternity beautiful now these are the chambers here the  chambers here there's ten of these yeah and each   one of these chambers would be a very old place  a burial and a treasury as well okay because even   before the ki the death of the king they were used  as a store where they keep the treasures and after   the death of the king the the treasures were used  for the life after this so this is like in egypt   they would build these uh these tombs before the  king actually died yes exactly if you're upstairs   looking around at this field you see stella stella  all these obelisks everywhere in this huge field   each one of them is the marker for a grave beneath  only five percent of them have been excavated now   they have fully excavated some of these places  but you know who got here first were grave robbers   many burial chambers had treasure rooms beside  them the grave robbers would make their way into   the tomb then cut a hole through the wall to  get to the valuable ivory and gold next door   imagine what you see is now an empty room filled  with ivory tusks gold ayah silver everything   that this king would represent himself with in the  afterlife this is how prosperous the axamites were   these burial rites ended in the 4th century a.d  when the aksamite kings adopted christianity   and a jewish relic they had possessed for  centuries became their greatest treasure   the ark of the covenant rumors have placed this  precious artifact all over the world but this   is the land of king solomon's son menelik  and many believe he brought the ark home   legend says it's still here today in this small  church just across the road from the pagan tombs   living inside that church is the guardian a  monk whose entire life is dedicated to the   protection of the ark and praying by its side  ethiopians have been assigning monks this duty   for almost three thousand years indeed in three  millennia no one has been allowed to see the ark   except the guardians not kings not popes not even  heads of state no one has been allowed inside by   the 6th century a.d 1400 years after the ark  may have first arrived here the western world   was in chaos the roman empire had fallen and  europe was mired in the horror of the dark ages   but the axomite empire was at its peak and just a  mile from the pagan obelisks their christian king   caleb built a magnificent final resting place a  tomb that may have lured the relic hunting knights   templar searching for the axomites greatest  treasure i can already feel this is a much grander   deeper tomb than the others now this is the last  maybe the last axomite king's tomb really we have   which belongs to the son of king caliph this is  the room for the grave with three sarcophagus   right before him and for his wife and for his son  or daughter and one sarcophagus is different from   the others because it's with a cross with  axumite hand cross carved in the end there we do have one axe might cross right here it does  look like a templar exactly exactly but templars   were 11th century but this is even the oxmite used  in the coin in the 4th century 80. that's why we   call it axonite1 this cross almost identical  to the crusader symbol predates it by seven   centuries it could be a coincidence or it could  prove europeans were here looking for the ark   many claim the knights templar dug for  it under the temple mount in jerusalem   and searched the ancient jordanian city of  petra they may have come to axum as well   so why did the templars come here they know  that through the legend the ark of the covenant   transported to ethiopia so they came here to  search for the holy grail and for the holy   for the ark of the covenant so they adopted  some elements like a cross like this which   they call it the knight templars or the crusaders  cross left fascinating that's where this is from   gold did the predecessors of the knights templar  come here searching for the ark and did they find   it or is the greatest treasure in christianity  still locked away in a small church in a dusty   town the answers may be lost in time like the once  great but now forgotten empire of axam everything   in this tomb speaks to the height of the axomite  empire it doesn't get any better than this in   fact this king sees the axomite empire at its  height after this certain factors contribute to   the downfall one the muslim armies end up cutting  off the trade routes the sea trade routes that the   aksamites have used for their great prosperity  it becomes a landlocked state so all of these   factors contribute to the decline of the great  axomite empire and what follows are the dark ages   for most of us living in a modern secular world  we practice our religion conveniently maybe one   day a week at best in places not so far from home  but starting in the 11th century christians here   and from places as far away as egypt made annual  pilgrimages to this remote region here in ethiopia   to a legendary church built within a mountain cave  where many came to worship and then he came to die in the central highlands of ethiopia at an  altitude of almost nine thousand feet lies a   scattering of tiny farming settlements but nearly  a thousand years ago this area is thought to have   been a magnet for sick and dying christians who  came here searching for a miraculous cure or a   peaceful end to their suffering in a mysterious  burial site near a lake of healing waters the road is very bumpy yeah this is really bumpy  our guide fucru led us to the holy site that   lured thousands here a church reputed to float  on water and so you're saying that this valley   what i'm seeing now as a remote village just a  few villagers this would have been thousands of   people a king yes imagine like 1000 years ago was  lots of people sitting here settling here in 1087   this was the center of the christian kingdom of  yamarajana christos according to church chronicles   he commanded that a church should be built on  top of a holy lake wow that is quite a hike well so that's the cave there there's a cave and  the church is right inside just there incredible   some believe the king was guided to this isolated  spot by a vision but the cave was also a practical   choice it shelters the church from the elements  preserving it for almost a thousand years look at   this location you climb all the way up here i mean  no wonder they thought this was a sacred place oh it's all inside the cave isn't it all inside  the cave incredible inside the gated enclosure   that covers the mouth of the cave is the church  the king's palace and a graveyard for thousands   of pilgrims who died here so this building  here is the church yeah this is the church   the church was built up in alternating levels  of wood and plaster mixed with stone chips   like a layer cake but today there's no  sign of the lake of mystical healing   waters that lured pilgrims from hundreds  even thousands of miles away unless you   know where to look oh there's a door here  if you look at it oh yeah look at that   okay so that's the water underneath yeah this  is all wet underneath of here some believe the   original lake was actually swampy ground and  the church foundation a framework of timber   or bamboo that evenly distributed the weight of  the building above a technique known as grillage   the groundwater trapped beneath could then  be accessed through hatches like this one   so the legend this is really floating on a secret  lake yeah so holy water if you will huh of course   even if this muddy water has  no special curative powers   the church itself receives thousands of visitors a  year and is still in active use today so we had to   shut down filming temporarily because there's  an act of service going on right behind this   fence here it's actually a baptism of a young  baby born in the village so we stepped away out of respect this service is now just concluding inside  christos church once the service is over we're   free to explore the building and it's medieval  frescoes salam and he's the one who's in charge   yes you look at it can i use this flashlight  please please oh it's so elaborate beautiful   look at the ceiling how nice and humid it is  gorgeous nose with those nicely made carvings   yes look at the prescott there i see yeah biblical  uh symbols and yes and stories here on this imagine if you were a pilgrim crossing by  foot miles and miles i mean thousands of   people would come here but the ultimate proof of  the shrine's power is located behind the church   deep in the cave over the centuries the old  and sick have come here perhaps they hoped the   waters beneath the church would save them or maybe  they knew they would never leave this sacred spot   here is the final resting place of king  yamahana christos the king who built this   church yes is buried right here so this is where  he's buried but he is not alone here the story   goes that people would come and and indeed  some would be almost at a state of death and   and would actually stay here and die here in order  to die in this in this legendary sacred space   right underneath of my feet look over here  another one there's just got to be countless bones   experts believe the bones of more than 10 000  people rest here in this holy cave skull skull   skull the teeth follow it up and  you are looking at a boneyard i mean what do you say i'm speechless there are  countless bodies all before me i've never seen   anything like this in my life many of the people  here may have come from lands as far away as egypt   and elsewhere they couldn't go to jerusalem i mean  like lalibella this place served as an alternative   okay this was a new jerusalem a a place for your  final resting place a place to be closer to god when a christian missionary fled from  constantinople to this remote corner of ethiopia   some 1500 years ago he had a vision from god a  dream of a mountaintop church carved from solid   rock where he and his followers could practice  his radical form of christianity in utter solitude   according to legend his vision would move entire  mountains and create one of the most breathtaking   and most treacherous places of worship on  earth up there in those steep rocky cliffs over 340 miles from the modern capital of  addis ababa are the cliffs of tigre and   hidden inside of them are the mysterious  holy objects of an ancient christian set   the ethiopian orthodox tewahido church   this underground location is actually high  in the sky a church carved into a sandstone   cliff about 9000 feet above sea level to get  to it the crew and i had to climb 2500 feet   hauling a few hundred pounds of camera gear  luckily our guide moulibrahan who's made this   journey more than 30 times brought a group of  local men to help us accomplish our mission   so we're going up there this is just the approach   and you can see when the whole thing goes  straight up it's going to be interesting the church we were hiking to is called abuna  yamada after the sixth century missionary who   like john the baptist came to the wilderness  to commune with god and spread the faith   and we're the first american  tv crew to make the climb this is by far the first like major face  that we're going up here and all the look   at these these holes these have all been  worn into the rock by thousands of years   of worshippers three priesthoods before  going straight up whoa look at that down oh my god you know what's awesome is that we  got to come back down this thing the remote church contains copies of lost books  of the bible still used by the ethiopian orthodox   church and buried on the path along the  way are the church's faithful guardians wow appropriately right next to the path that  anyone on a pilgrimage would have to pass by   these guardians ominous wow you start to get a sense  of how isolated this really is i mean   that's really the point isn't it that they  they really wanted to get away from it all so this is part of the church uh this is the  sacred place where we take off our shoes oh   okay so from this moment on we're in the church  yesing that's what i see ah top of the world here   nice heaven heaven the church believes  that over one thousand years ago   a holy man fleeing persecution in the  eastern roman capital of constantinople   followed this same path and found safety  here this is abune yamata yamata abuna   a name of the monk from one of the nine cents  who established this church at the monastery in   the 6th century a.d okay so 500 a.d this was done  and so they came this high up for the isolation i   suppose for isolation to lead spiritual life  only okay get rid of the secular life and the   protection obviously from being so far up above  everything exactly all right can we go in yeah   look this sheer rock face right here you fall  off that you are gone the length they went to   to put a monastery up here  on the top of a mountain wow amazing i had no idea this is going  to be as spectacular as it is i mean it's   really extravagantly painted what am i  looking at here this is representing the   monk on the horse of on the back of the horse  which represents the founder of the monastery   yamata one of the nine cents here you have the  nine cents all right abuna yamada was one of the   nine saints who fled persecution in constantinople  and found sanctuary here in northern ethiopia   they followed a religious doctrine known as  monophysitism which held that jesus christ   was entirely divine as opposed to being divine  and human as many western christians believed   it was a doctrine that challenged the christian  leadership branded them as heretics and could   have cost them their lives every inch  of this place has a figure on it yeah   they are telling the stories and the oh  i see the virgin mary here definitely   look at this incredible artwork when the nine  saints came to ethiopia they brought with   him an entirely new style of painting  which became a biblical teaching tool   now do people actually come and use this place  presently now what makes very interesting is also   uh children are baptized in here so the women  has to come up all you know these climbs with   their babies with the babies on their back  wow so you see this church is quite active   yeah every time all right very important  to the locals very important very important   i see behind you there is the priest here so yeah  he is in charge and the guardian of the space yes   yeah he the uh head of uh the priestess and he  is also in charge of the church and so he's given   us permission to come up here today exactly thank  you very much this priest scales the cliff several   times a week half a mile high to tend to his local  parishioners and distant visitors spreading the   church's unique vision of the gospels so these  all these bibles and and prayer books here he's   going to show us the priest has opened one  up can we see inside these are very very old and hand uh hand script here and and hand painted  i guess yeah on what what is this material it's a   it's it's uh uh skeen sheepskin ship  skin can i can i page oh thank you   oh yeah and this this language is which  is this is the oldest language in ethiopia   it's like the equivalent of latin exactly for them  how close is the ethiopian orthodox church to that   which an american would know well in ethiopia the  orthodox church we have some more books like this   which are you know partly from the bible partly  outside the bible yeah for example you know   miracle of centimeters only in ethiopia you don't  find somewhere else in the world right different   customs of course a different language all kinds  of things that uh that a western christian might   find strange yeah really erupted from a totally  unique culture a different religion thank you   so much yes when abu niyamata came here  with the other eight saints they brought a   totally unique brand of christianity to  ethiopia that one very different from what   we're used to in the west i mean it involved  different rituals uh different lost books   it really was a whole unique view of  christianity and and it was mysterious   because it was isolated cut off from the rest of  the world and that mystery really continues today today christianity has spread to every corner  of the world but here in the isolated highlands   of ethiopia you can see how jesus's  early disciples may have worshipped   a priceless glimpse into the past safely  stored away in the underground you

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Published: Wed Dec 23 2020

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[u/faith_crusader]

Bethlehem is in Iraq though

[u/elijahtroyer]

Nice history channel find, I’m sure it’s accurate 😂