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Languages: English, Spanish An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered what they believe to be one of the oldest Christian churches ... documented church in the country – sensational evidence for early Christianity in Armenia ...

Christian monks maintain their ancient way of life in the St. George Monastery ... Built in 1955 over the ruins of a fifth century Byzantine church, it contains a beautiful preserved Byzantine mosaic ...

The ancient church resembled early Christian memorial buildings, according to the University of Münster. It measured about 100 feet across and originally had mortar flooring, created mostly from ...

Historians found that, in ancient times, the complex was "transformed" into a church. "[It] contained a marble-lined basin, interpreted as an ancient baptistery," said the post, which was ...

The choice of construction funded by Christian ... churches). At Khirbet al-Samra in the territory of the Syrian city of Bostra, scholars identified at least eight churches, mostly dated to the ...

"The team excavated parts of the church and studied it using geophysical methods." "Typologically, the find corresponds to early Christian memorial buildings," the press release continued.