early Christianity

Archaeologists discover possible fifth-century bishop’s church near Venice

Archaeologists from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice have identified the remains of a church dating from between the late fourth century and the first half of the fifth century in the ancient city of Altino, northern Italy. The building has a rectangular floor plan measuring approximately 30 by 20 metres, with no apse, and is…

Oct 30, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian authorities plan early Christian museum at fourth-century tomb site in Constanța

Constanța County Council plans to establish a museum dedicated to early Christianity on a site where an ancient underground tomb has been discovered. According to the County Council, the discovery’s exceptional significance prompted the initiation of a procedure to include the site on Romania’s List of Historic Monuments as a Category A monument, denoting national…

Oct 16, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

42 lost pages of Saint Paul’s Epistles recovered from ancient manuscript

Forty-two lost pages from the Epistles of the Holy Apostle Paul have been recovered from an ancient manuscript, in a discovery scholars say sheds new light on how the Pauline writings were read and interpreted in the early centuries of Christianity. According to the University of Glasgow, the discovery was made by an international team…

Apr 29, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Rare Early Christian ‘Good Shepherd’ fresco found in ancient Nicaea tomb

A rare depiction of Jesus as the “Good Shepherd” has been uncovered in a chamber tomb in the Hisardere Necropolis in the ancient city of Nicaea (modern-day Iznik), in Turkey’s Bursa province, Turkiye Today reported. Researchers consider the scene to be the only known example of its kind identified so far in Anatolia, describing it…

Dec 15, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Ancient Christian amulet discovered in Frankfurt rewrites regional history

Archaeologists in Frankfurt unearthed an object dating from 230-270 AD, approximately 50 years older than the first known Christian artifacts in the region. Archaeologists say this Christian evidence was found during excavations of a Roman grave in Germany from the 3rd century. A Discovery That Could Change History In Frankfurt, an amulet approximately 1,800 years…

Dec 20, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

New findings on an old settlement from the Cradle of Christianity

The June edition of Atiqot, an Israeli research journal, illumines the Christianity of a Byzantine settlement from old Galilee, destroyed by Persian invaders in 613 AD. Archeologists have just finished their analysis of this site, which was partially unearthed in 2007 at Pi Mazuva, in northwestern Israel. “While for now, we have no documents from Christian…

Jul 8, 2020Ștefana Totorcea