“Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing an Amulet That May Change the History of Christianity A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion’s spread BY TIM NEWCOMBPUBLISHED: DEC 17, 2024 8:30 AM EST Douglas Sacha//Getty Images Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text hidden within a silver amulet from the third century A.D. The find rewrites the history of Christianity’s spread in the northern Roman Empire. 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered buried in a Frankfurt, Germany, grave, still next to the chin of the man who wore it, has 18 lines of text written in Latin on just 1.37 inches of silver foil. That could be enough to rewrite the known history of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The amulet—and the inscription—are the oldest evidence of Christianity found north of the Alps. Every other link to reliable evidence of Christian life in the northern Alpine area of the Roman Empire is at least 50 years younger, all coming from the fourth century A.D. But the amulet, found in a grave dating between 230 and 270 A.D. and now known as “The Frankfurt Inscription,” was made to better decipher the inscription….” https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63204262/silver-amulet-roman-christianity/
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