In fact in and around Jerusalem over 800 tombs and tomb complexes have been excavated in the last 100 years. It’s nothing strange at all in these multi-generational tombs to find 50, 60, 70 skeletons. And of course, we find plenty of evidence of ossilegium—the gathering of the bones and placing them in bone boxes which was very popular in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. This is because ossuaries were readily available because of all of Herod’s building projects. Even after Herod the Great died in