"From the author: "Since the publication of the first edition of this book in September 2009, ten years have passed, during which the spades of the archeologists have not been idle. In their work they again came upon important evidence from the time of Jesus, each piece of which, like a stone in a mosaic, brings the overall picture into sharper focus by adding new contours and aspects to it. In order to do justice in the second edition also to the claim of presenting the current state of the research, corrections and additions were necessary. For this purpose I regularly visited the Holy Land during the last three years and took part in the excavations in Magdala, inspected Cana again and had the discoveries from Nazareth scientifically dated. Descriptions of the archeological sites have been supplemented by the latest discoveries and research findings and thus brought up to date"--