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18-NOV-2011

Jewish cemetery, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel, 2011

Long before Christianity or Islam existed, Jerusalem was already holy ground to Jews. The Mount of Olives has been used as a Jewish cemetery for 3,000 years, and holds approximately 150,000 graves. I made this image of five of those graves. The stones left on these graves continue a tradition that goes back to Biblical times, when gravestones were not used, and mounds of stones marked gravesites. Today, visitors to these graves have left small stones, showing that someone has visited these gravesites, and thereby perpetuated their existence.

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