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"A group of scientists from universities in the US and Israel announced the discovery of a 1,700-year-old Christian mosaic buried some two meters beneath the courtyard of Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation.
The modern basilica building was constructed in 1969 atop the site of earlier Crusader and Byzantine churches.
The Byzantine church was believed to have been constructed in the fourth century CE.
The church marks the spot where Roman Catholics believe the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced the imminent birth of Jesus.
“The mosaic floor is beautifully decorated with multiple stylized crosses and iconography,” Hartford Professor Richard Freund, who headed the project, said in a statement."
"A group of scientists from universities in the US and Israel announced the discovery of a 1,700-year-old Christian mosaic buried some two meters beneath the courtyard of Nazareth’s Basilica of the Annunciation.
The modern basilica building was constructed in 1969 atop the site of earlier Crusader and Byzantine churches.
The Byzantine church was believed to have been constructed in the fourth century CE.
The church marks the spot where Roman Catholics believe the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced the imminent birth of Jesus.
“The mosaic floor is beautifully decorated with multiple stylized crosses and iconography,” Hartford Professor Richard Freund, who headed the project, said in a statement."