5,000-Year-Old Rock Art Suggests a Nativity Scene 3,000 Years Before Jesus’ Birth
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/nativity-screen1.jpg?itok=nYlvj1LV"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/nativity-screen1.jpg?itok=nYlvj1LV" width="610" height="312" alt="The 5,000-year-old rock painting in this photo, may depict a Nativity-type scene like the 2,000-year-old scenes of Jesus’ birth. Dr. Morelli came across the cave painting in Egypt in 2005 but went public with it in 2016. Source: Marco Morelli, via Seeker.com" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>About 5,000 years ago an artist in Egypt painted an apparent nativity scene onto the rocks of a small cave—a tableau similar to crèche scenes that depict Jesus being laid? in a manager in a cave or barn. The Egyptian scene, the oldest one known, includes two adults, a baby between them ascending, some animals and a dot above them and to the right, possibly indicating a star in the east.</p>
<p>The Italian researcher who discovered the scene kept it a secret when he found it in 2005, said? <a href="http://www.seeker.com/5000-year-old-nativity-scene-found-2161058490.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a story about the find[/url]? on Seeker.com. It is the oldest known nativity scene in the world - the word?
nativity? means birth - and the researchers named it ‘The Cave of the Parents’.</p>
<p>Although there is not too much more information to be found about the depiction, and even now the original report on Seeker is illusive, the reported find is certainly a curiosity.</p>
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<h2>Ancient Nativity Scene Discovery: A 3,000-Year Prelude</h2>
<p>“It's a very evocative scene which indeed resembles the Christmas
nativity. But it predates it by some 3,000 years," geologist Marco Morelli, who discovered the painting, told Seeker.com at the time. In 2016, he was the director of the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, Italy.</p>
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