Artifacts: Capernaum

           
         Handmills for grinding grain, found at Capernaum            Stone water jar used for ritual purifying

         
       Olive press, found at Capernaum                                                          Nails used for building houses.

            

         Another olive press, also at Capernaum            Oil lamp (Greek style)                

  
       Ancient fishhooks found in Peter's house               Oven used for making pita bread

 
A view of the ruins of Peter's house, and the octagonal church
that was built around it.  By 400 AD most of the people in Capernaum
were Christians.

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