By ANDREAS MARGOLIS FOX NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2, 2026

Archaeologists have completed an excavation beneath one of Christianity’s holiest sites, revealing a fuller picture of the ancient landscape where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried and providing support for scripture — something an early Christianity expert said he found very compelling. 

Francesca Stasolla, an archaeology professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, led the excavation in 2025, which focused on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The findings were recently published in Liber Annuus, the archaeological journal of Jerusalem’s Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, in a 98-page preliminary report on the campaign.