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The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [ 18 ] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
The Gospel of John tells that, in the night between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Roman soldiers mocked Jesus by placing a thorny crown on his head (John 19:12). [34] The crown is a circle of cane bundled together and held by gold threads. The thorns were attached to this braided circle, which measured 21 cm (8.3 in) in diameter.
t. e. According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) [ 1] are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. [ 2] Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing ...
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process. After reducing his jaw ...
Varna Necropolis. Coordinates: 43°12′47″N 27°51′52″E. Reconstruction of elite male burial, with some of the world's oldest gold jewellery, c. 4,500 BC. The Varna Necropolis ( Bulgarian: Варненски некропол ), or Varna Cemetery, is a burial site in the western industrial zone of Varna (approximately half a kilometre ...
Head of Christ. The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [ 1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [ 2]
The Jordan Lead Codices (or the Jordanian Codices) are a collection of codices allegedly found in a cave in Jordan and first publicized in March 2011. A number of scholars and a November 2012 regional BBC News investigation initially pronounced them fakes. As of 2017, both the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Jordanian archaeological ...
The coin was minted by the Byzantine empire, likely in Constantinople, experts said.