Golgotha 

The hill of execution was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, apparently near a road and not far from the sepulcher where Jesus was buried. Its exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulcher or a hillock called Gordon’s Calvary, just north of the Damascus Gate.

We are told that Golgotha was accessed on that dark day of Jesus’ crucifixion by a road that was a direct route through the Damascus gate, which led out of the city to the north. We are also told that Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb, where Jesus was buried, was located just north of Golgotha and across the road that led to Samaria.

Just forty years after Jesus' crucifixion, during the siege of Jerusalem, Golgotha was completely covered in thousands upon thousands of crosses, upon which the flower of the Jewish race perished day by day.