Jerusalem: Absalom Tomb
Jerusalem. The monument known as Absalom’s Tomb, with its cone-shaped top has stood facing the Temple Mount since the time of the Second Temple. It is about twenty meters high, carved out of the rock in the Kidron Valley between the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount. The valley became popular as a burial place from the Second Temple period because of the belief that the resurrection of the dead would begin there when the Messiah arrived. The monument, which resembles a Nabatean tomb, was called Absalom’s Tomb because of the passage in 2 Samuel 18:18, about the monument set in the Kings’ Valley by King David’s son, Absalom, who named it after himself to perpetuate his name because he had no sons.
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