Archaeologists in Nazareth where Jesus lived have identified a 1st-century-home as the place where Jesus spent his childhood years with Mary and Joseph. The house, located in modern-day Israel, is made of mortar-and-stone walls cut into a rocky hillside. First uncovered in the 1880s by nuns at the Sister of Nazareth convent, the area has been an excavation site since 2006 in a dig led by Ken Dark, professor at the University of Reading in the UK.

Dark says that people who lived for centuries after Jesus’ time have identified the place as the home where Jesus lived. It has yet to be conclusively proven as the actual house of Jesus.

The Virgin Mary’s spring. How it looked in 1916.