Archaeological site Judaism

Capernaum

כפר נחום he

Village at Lake Tiberias in the north of historical Judea, associated with Jesus

Dated from 2nd century BCE
Also called Kfar Nahum, Kfar Nachum

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Overview

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Within the site

Inside Capernaum

1 recorded place within the site, from their own records.

Located here
Capernaum synagogue
archaeological site in Israel

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence	On record	What it shows
Site date	Dated from 2nd century BCE On the timeline	A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there.
Location	Recorded On the atlas	A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity	None recorded	A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Capernaum, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Also recorded as located here: Custodian of the Holy Land

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas