1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic'

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1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic'

Archaeologists were surprised that the skeleton of a person wrapped in heavy chains was female.

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Not far from Jerusalem, in the crypts of the Byzantine monastery at Khirbat el-Masani (approx. 3 km from the Old City of Jerusalem), archaeologists have discovered a 5th-century tomb of a woman whose body...