Garden Tomb

I don't believe in God/Jesus anymore because he can't/won't stop the fluoridation and other mean cruel hell wrongs being done to me. But this is just a mere history post on the Garden Tomb matching the tomb of Jesus better than the Holy Sepulchre.

Almost all of these claimed evidences below are from other peoples articles/posts, I don't claim credit for them myself, they deserve the credit (if the claimed are not wrong/false/fake/untrue). I have only added a couple of my own extra evidences. It is false to give Ron Wyatt all the credit because quite alot of others before and after him have also contributed to the case for this site. Be wary of some of the mainstream critical counter claims because some of their things like dating methods are unreliable and because Jews and Romans and others have known anti-Christian motives/interests.

Evidences in favour of Skull Hill and the Garden Tomb being the correct true crucifiction site and tomb of Jesus as opposed to the Holy Sepulchre:

- Jesus was crucified outside of the city (walls). This certainly matches the Skull Hill site, while the Holy Sepulchre site is disputed whether it was inside or outside. The Holy Sepulchre is described as being in "the middle of the city" nearby intersection of the main roads.

- Jesus was crucified on the north side of altar (Levi 1:11), and north of Mt Zion (Eusebius). Skull Hill is on the north side of the city near the Damascus gate.

- Jesus was crucifed at Golgotha/Kranion/Calvary "the place of the skull" or "heap of stones". (See the seed of the woman prophecy which says he will bruise the (seed of the) sepent's head.) The rocky escarpment adjacent to the Garden Tomb is called Skull Hill because it looks abit like a skull (rounded on 3 sides, and eye-like cavities/caves/caverns). It was also a site of stonings and executions, and of tombs. Limestone is also connected with bones. Some traditions claim it was also the re/burial site of the bones of Adam or Shem.
(The name Gordon is coincidentally similar to Golgotha?)

- Lots of people passed by the site when he was crucified (being near a city gate and road). This fits the site which is near the Damascus gate.

- One of the guards gave Jesus vinegar to drink. There is a winepress and cistern(s) in the area. There was also a cistern claimed to be found at the Holy Sepulchre site in Crusader times....

- There was a great earthquake. Wyatt claimed there was a quake crack found in Skull Hill. Also, the name AlAdhamiyah / ElAdhamiyeh / ElHeidhemiyeh / ElHeiremiyeh in the area has been suggested to mean "the rent". (There have also been quakes at the other Holy Sepulchre site too.)

- Jesus shed alot of blood at Calvary. Wyatt claimed that he found blood on the mercy seat of the ark underneath the Skull hill crucifiction site, which is said to have come through the quake cracks. The blood was claimed to have a different number of chromosomes from normal human blood. (Compare tradition that Jesus blood was caught in the holy grail.)

- The tomb was nearby the crucifiction site. The Garden Tomb is nearby Skull Hill.

- The tomb was in a garden which had a gardener. The Garden Tomb is in a garden, hence the name. There is evidence that the area was a garden in the Jesus' times (including winepress, cistern, etc).
(Note also the traditional association/analogy with the garden of Eden.)

- The tomb was hewn in rock. So is the Garden tomb. Cavities/caves/caverns in Skull Hill. "Solomon's quarries" not far away.

- The tomb was a new never-before-used tomb. This point is disputed by some that claim the tomb dates to older bc times, but some others say it dates to around about Jesus times. "2nd bed is unfinished".

- Tomb belonged to a rich man. The Garden Tomb's
quality, large size and location are said to evidence for it being a wealthy person's tomb.

- Tomb belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. Arimathea is only mentioned in the gospels, though some connect it with Ramah or Ramla or Ramleh or Ramathaim(-zophim) / Armathaim Sipha or Rathamin, with the name meaning "hill, height(s), highland, high (place), strong, exaltion, watch-tower(s)". Some suggest Arimathea might be Hor-hammetim "of the hole of the dead, the grave-digger". These meanings may fit the Skull Hill site. Possibly the name Arimathea might be connected with the name Adham / AlAdhamiyah / ElAdhamiyeh / ElHeidhemiyeh / ElHeiremiyeh, or the name Jeremiah's grotto, both of which are associated with the Skull Hill area? Some sources suggest that the crucifiction site was Adam's grave/burial site. (D & r interchange in Hebrew.)

- Tomb enterance covered by a large stone which was rolled away. There is a channel/trough in front of the Garden Tomb which may have held such a rolling stone door. Though some claim it is from later crusader times and that it wouln't have held a stone very well.

- Tomb enterance stone was securded/sealed. Some claim that a large metal bar was found which was likely used in securing the stone, or "material containing iron" and evidence of being nailed?

- 2 beds or 2 pillows for 2 people (husband & wife) may match Jesus & us/bride died & buried & raised together? (3 graves ~ Father, Son, Spirit? Body Soul Spirit? Blood water spirit? Water, Spirit, Fire bapism? 3 days? 3 crosses/crucified?)
The tomb has 2 chambers, like a heart?

- They had to stoop to enter the tomb. This matches the Garden Tomb.

- Angels sitting at head and foot of the bed. The bed in the Garden Tomb has 2 pillows at the head & the foot. (Compare Robin Hood's grave.)

- They saw an angel on the right side. The Garden Tomb has "an open burial space on the right".

- Angel sitting cross-legged suggests a raised bench such as the tomb does have?

- The tomb was empty after the resurrection. The Garden Tomb is empty.

- Date. The date is disputed. Some claim the tomb dates to older bc times and can't match (Barkay). Others have claimed a date of aroud about Jesus times (Kenyon?)

- The Garden Tomb's association with the dates 1888 and 1988 may confirm the link. Jesus in Greek is 888. 8 stands for "new" in biblical numerology. 8th day man versus 6th day man in Genesis 1-2. (Though Wyatt's association with 1999 and 66 makes one wonder.) The Holy Sepulchre (has 6 tombs, and) has a link with the date 1666.

(- Skull Hill is near the Damascus which recalls Aram/Adam, Abraham's servant Eleazar of Damascus, Paul's road to Damascus and the "Damascus" of the Essenes.)

The Holy Sepulchre's association with Jesus Christ likely originates from the initials of Jupiter Capitolina being the same? (Venus at the site also may have been conflated with Eve or Mary or the Church/bride of Christ?)

Basic general reference links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_of_Jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-cut_tombs_in_ancient_Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpiot_Tomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Family_Tomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Tomb_of_Jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_East_Jerusalem_locations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)#Gates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoarchaeology

Also see this related artricle on Cruc Mawr here: http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=37630&PID=722401#722401 .

Timeline:
Eden/Adam, seed of the woman/serpent prophecy
Abel's sacrifice
Shem/Melchizedek
Abraham, Isaac, Machpelah
Ramah/Samuel
David
Solomon's quarries
Isaiah
Jeremiah's grotto, Zedekiah's cave, "Ezekiel code"
Septuagint
Jesus Christ ear 1st cent ad
St Stephen
"Joseph of Arimathea 63"
(Hadrian 135)
Origen 3rd cent
Eusebius Caesarea/Pamphilius 260s/340/365
(Constantine/Helena 306-312-327-337)
(Pilgrim of Bordeaux 333)
(Egeria 380s)
Acts of Pilate 6th cent
Ramla founded 705-715
(St Willibald 754)
(Cruc Mawr)
Crusaders 11th/12th-13th cent
(Saewulf 1108)
(William of Tyre mid-12th century)
Borron late 12th-13th cent
(Robin Hood's grave)
John of Glastonbury c 1350
(Byzantine Icon of the Descent from the Cross 14th cent)
Quaresimus 1639
Korte 1743
Anonymous History of that Holy Disciple Joseph of Arimathea 1770
Clarke 1812
Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine 1841
Thenius 1842
Curzon 1848
Howe 1850/1871
Tristram 1858/1893
Garden Tomb unearthed 1867
Merril, Gobat 1870s
Conder 1872/1878
Schick 1870s/1874 
Renan 1879
historical photograph 1880
Gordon's Calvary 1883/1888
Harris 1889 
Garden Tomb Association 1894
Wilson 1906
(Dobson 1936)
(archaeological excavations Holy Sepulchre 1970s)
(Corbo 1970s/1981)
Onomasticon 1971
(Talpiot Tomb discovered 1980)
(Bahat 1986)
Gabi Barkay 1986.
David Fasold 1988/1990
(Talpiot Tomb documented in catalogue 1994, discussed in media 1996)
Ron Wyatt died 1999 aged 66
(Morris 2005.)
(Talpiot Tomb film 2007.)

(Sorry i see i have to correct some spelling mistakes: crucifiction, enterance, etc.)