Intact Reliquary Cross Found in Turkey - Archaeology Magazine

Intact Reliquary Cross Found in Turkey - Archaeology Magazine

KONYA, TURKEY—According to a Türkiye Today report, an intact cross made of two pieces of bronze riveted together has been uncovered in central Turkey by İlker Mete Mimiroğlu of Necmettin Erbakan University. The artifact, which has been dated to sometime between the ninth and eleventh centuries a.d., was found in a church cemetery in the ancient city of Lystra. Such small containers were used to hold sacred objects or relics associated with Chris…