Editing Church of the Nativity (section)

===Ancient burials===
A number of ancient trough-shaped tombs can be seen in the Catholic-owned caves adjacent to the Nativity Grotto and St Jerome's Cave, some of them inside the Chapel of the Innocents; more tombs can be seen on the southern, Greek-Orthodox side of the Basilica of the Nativity, also presented as being those of the infants murdered by Herod.

According to researcher Haytham Dieck, [[Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel|rock-cut tombs]] and bone fragments in one restricted room of the church date from the 1st century AD. In another clandestine{{dubious|reason=Poor English, or plain BS? Does it refer to the grotto from the Greek Orthodox side already mentioned above? That one is anything but "clandestine", it's a chapel regularly visited by pilgrims. And a Discovery programme doesn't look like a RS!|date=December 2022}} chamber, the Cave of the Holy Innocents, skulls and other bones from as many as 2,000 people (according to Dieck) are collected, but are clearly not infantile.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Mysteries of Jesus |series=Expedition Unknown |series-link=Expedition Unknown |network=[[Discovery Channel]] |date=2019 |season=6 |number=2 |time=14:30, 18:30}}</ref>