DAY 7: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AROUND THE DEAD SEA. Today, you will visit the archaeological remains at Al-Maghtas, otherwise known as the Baptism Site, said to be the site of Jesus’s baptism.

The engraved name of the Roman Procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, was found on a stone 10 miles south of Haifa, it was revealed here today. This is the first time that archaeological evidence ...