It was a big week for archeological discoveries and announcements. We’ll skip over Berlusconi’s boasts to his mistress about owning thirty Phoenician tombs.
These, however, are significant for patristics nerds. Read up:
An ancient mosaic of an angel’s face has been uncovered at Istanbul’s Haghia Sophia.
Divers have found ruins of Cassiodorus’s birthplace.
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I’m always glad to see vandalism cleaned up, so Hagia Sophia’s cherubim revealed after so long is welcome news. I wonder what got them to do it? There is rumored to be a Pantokrator in the dome, but that may be asking a bit much.
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