Tomb of the Prophets

Tomb of the Prophets

Arabic: قبور الأنبياء, romanized: Qubūr al-ʾAnbiyyāʾ
Plan of the tomb
Location	Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Coordinates	31°46′35″N 35°14′35″E / 31.776444°N 35.243106°E / 31.776444; 35.243106
Type	burial chamber
History
Founded	1st century
Site notes
Excavation dates	1870–1874
Archaeologists	Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
Ownership	Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
Public access	Scheduled access (on-site caretaker)

The Tomb of the Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (Arabic: قبور الأنبياء, romanized: Qubūr al-ʾAnbiyyāʾ} lit. 'Graves (of) the Prophets'; Hebrew: מערת הנביאים "Cave of the Prophets") is an ancient burial site located on the upper western slope of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. According to a medieval Jewish tradition also adopted by Christians, the catacomb is believed to be the burial place of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, the last three Hebrew Bible prophets who are believed to have lived during the 6th–5th centuries BC. Archaeologists have dated the three earliest burial chambers to the first century BC, thus contradicting the tradition.^[1]