Archaeologists may have finally solved why a 10th-century rotunda has no door

Archaeologists may have finally solved why a 10th-century rotunda has no door

For decades, one of Poland's oldest stone churches posed a deceptively simple question: If the 10th-century rotunda had no entrance, how was anyone supposed to get inside? A new study suggests the answer may be far less complicated than generations of scholars assumed. The building may never have needed an exterior door at all. What happened? Researchers may have finally explained the mystery of the Rotunda of the Holy Virgin Mary, a small stone…