For nearly two thousand years, Gethsemane kept a secret in its own name. Millions have prayed on that slope below the Mount of Olives, where Jesus is said to have prayed the night of his arrest — yet a century of digging found nothing from his era. Then, in 2020, a tunnel floor collapsed beneath the Church of All Nations and exposed a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath cut into bare rock in his own time. Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Amit Re'em dated it with no coin, no inscription — and the reason it was cut there may finally explain the name.

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