Today's Video Headlines: 7/25/24
A long-lost altar dating from the times of the crusades was discovered hidden in plain sight by archaeologists at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem — one of the holiest sites in Christianity where Jesus is believed to have resurrected from the dead.
The other side of the stone, however, was magnificently decorated and identified the slab as the front panel of the altar used by Crusaders in the middle ages from when it was consecrated in 1149 up until it vanished from history when a massive fire destroyed part of the church hundreds of years later.Christians believed Jesus was buried and rose from the dead at at the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences said the find was “sensational” as it begs the question how such an important relic could remain hidden from academics’ eyes in one of the most intensely researched buildings in Christianity. The only piece of Cosmatesque art still in existence outside of Italy is in the United Kingdom’s Westminster Abbey, where the pope had sent an artist.
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