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Amit Re'em of the Israel Antiquities Authority examines crosses engraved into a wall at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (video screenshot)
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority believe they have solved an age-old mystery at Christianity’s most sacred church.
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, features multitudes of engraved crosses on its walls.
Researchers never quite knew how they got there, though it was thought that perhaps pilgrims had etched them into the stone, as one might carve one’s name onto a tree, a statement of “I came, I saw.”