(NBC News) Turkish archaeologists say they have found a stone chest in a
1,350-year-old church that appears to contain a relic venerated as a piece of
Jesus’ cross.
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The artifacts were unearthed during a dig atBalatlar Church in Turkey’s Sinop
Province, and displayed this week by excavation team leader Gülgün Köroğlu. "We
have found a holy thing in a chest. It is a piece of a cross," the Hurriyet
Daily News quoted her as saying.
Köroğlu, an art historian and archaeologist at Turkey’s Mimar Sinan University
of Fine Arts, said the team suspects that the chest served as a symbolic coffin
for the relics of a holy person — and that the fragments within it were
associated with Jesus' crucifixion.
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