Rather than the Biblical figure sometimes described as “Jesus’ midwife,” the tomb might have held a figure of Judean royalty. And she said to her: Salome, Salome, a new sight have I to tell thee. As Live Science notes, those pilgrimages were a common enough occurrence that they continued for two hundred years after the area had been conquered by the Islamic Caliphate in the 7th century. Related Story Ancient Plants May Show the Site of Jesus’s TombBiblical tradition holds that Herod I, who ruled from 37 B.C. “It’s not that I think it must be the tomb of Salome the sister of Herod,” Lifshits told Live Science.