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The cult of the dead, and the honoring of the dead was of huge importance in all of the Biblical world, including in the Greco-Roman portion of that world.  People spent huge sums of money to be buried in prominent places in elaborate sarcophagi,and rock cut tombs, The following pictures as from several sites in…

That’s Levent Oral,  my tour company owner friend from Izmir with me.

When Christians began in the fourth century to go on pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, if they were coming from Italy, Greece, Turkey or anywhere west of Israel, they tended to come most of the way by boat. And one of the favorite stopping spots was on an island off the south west…
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