surrounding site was excavated in 1997-98 by Yardena Alexandre, and the archaeological remains exposed were ascertained to date from the Roman, Crusader , Mamluk and Ottoman periods. [43] [44] [45] [46] Nazareth in 1842 Epiphanius writes in the Panarion (c. 375 AD) [47] of a certain elderly Count Joseph of Tiberias,