When Miriam and Theo Siebenberg purchased a plot of land for
their new home in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City
that Israel had just a few years before captured from Jordan,
they had no idea of the antiquity treasures dating back from
Jesus’ time and before that lay underneath.  Before the
Siebenbergs built their house in a neighborhood where
archaeological finds were regularly cropping up, Israeli
Department of Antiquities inspectors examined the site, but
found nothing of historical significance that would have stopped
construction.  The Couple That Found 2,000 Year Old
Archaeological Treasures under Their House  Descending into
history at the Siebenberg House (Photos Credit: Tzuriel Cohen-
Arazi/Tazpit News Agency)  In 1970, they moved into the new home
and were soon to discover how wrong the inspectors had been.  At
the time, archaeologists from the Hebrew University were
excavating all around the Jewish Quarter.  “I went over one day
and asked the archaeologists if they had checked the area wher