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A Tomb Once Said to Hold ‘Jesus’s Midwife’ Might Instead Hold Ancient Royalty For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure.

Rather than the Biblical figure sometimes described as “Jesus’ midwife,” the tomb might have held a figure of Judean royalty.