Archaeologists believe they've found cross of Jesus of Nazareth [View all]

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Edit: In my naivety, I actually saw this as a post about archaeology rather than religion. I clearly had no concept of the intensity of faith of so many members. If this were a thread about an excavation of a relic related to an Incan figure, say Tupac Amaru I, would there be such anger? The existence of a man called Jesus of Nazareth does not mean you have to be a Christian. That historians believe he existed does not mean you have to be a Christian. Muslims and Jews acknowledge Jesus as a prophet, but they don't see him as divine.

Archaeologists working at an ancient church in Turkey think they've unearthed a piece of the world's most famous cross, the one used to crucify Jesus.

They found a stone chest during excavation at a 1,350-year-old church, and the chest had a number of relics inside believed to be associated with the crucifixion, a historian at Turkey's Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts tells the Hurriyet Daily News.

"We have found a holy thing in a chest," she says. "It is a piece of a cross," and they think it's from the cross.

The entire chest is now undergoing lab tests, reports NBC News. Researchers aren't sure who owned the chest, but it was probably a religious person of some importance, and that person apparently believed the cross relic was the real deal.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/02/newser-jesus-cross-archaeologists/2611357/

Video from NBC: http://www.today.com/video/today/52651272#52651272