Excavations reveal pilgrims’ lamps and inscriptions at ‘tomb of Salome’

Finds at site west of Jerusalem named after woman said to have assisted at the birth of Jesus Christ

Archaeologists have unveiled pilgrims’ lamps and other finds from the ’tomb of Salome’, a burial site named after a woman said to have assisted at the birth of Christ.

The tomb was discovered by grave robbers in what is now Tel Lachish national park, west of Jerusalem, in the 1980s.