Italian archaeologists from Sapienza University of Rome have discovered an ancient complex beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem that matches the biblical description of the burial place of Jesus Christ.

The research, published in The Daily Mail with reference to the scientific journal Liber Annuus, confirms the Gospel texts that speak of a tomb carved into the rock at the site of the crucifixion.

Excavations under the church, which began during the restoration of its floor, have revealed an abandoned quarry, agricultural fields, an ancient garden, and tombs carved into the rock.

According to the head of the expedition, Francesca Romana Stasolla, the Gospel of John describes the execution site as an area with a garden and a new tomb where no one had been buried before.

The discovered tomb, carved directly into the rock, fully coincides with the descriptions of other sacred texts.

In addition, researchers have discovered the remains of olive trees and vines, which grew here in the first century AD and are probably contemporaries of the time of Christ’s crucifixion.

The Gospel mentions a green belt between Golgotha and the tomb, and they have discovered exactly these cultivated fields, said Francesca Romana Stasolla.