Megiddo is a very interesting archaeological site. It has 26 levels of occupation that archaeologists have been working on for decades. Megiddo is located a few miles to the southeast of Haifa in northern Israel. This city used to control the crossroads of the MiddleEast. There is evidenced by many roads leading out from Megiddo to the rest of the MiddleEast.
Israel established a prison in Megiddo in 1982 and is home to many high-security Palestinian inmates. Last year while serving their time, inmates began to find coins and crockery all around. Then they found a bunch of tiles that belonged to what is now deemed as the oldest Christian church in the world. They figured out that the tiles belonged to early christians, because of the symbols engraved throughout the room: a fish, an empty tomb, and a shephard's staff. All of which were symbolic for early christians. I was interested to find out that the cross was not symbolic for Christians until Constatine.
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