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Chained in faith: 5th-century female skeleton may be world’s 1st self-mortifying Christian nun

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Cutting-edge technology allows a team of Israeli researchers to determine that mysterious ironclad remains found in a church near Jerusalem belonged to a woman​


Some 1,600 years ago, a mysterious woman was bound with four heavy metal rings around her neck and others around her arms and legs. Iron plates on her stomach completed what was effectively an armored structure.

When the woman died, she was buried under the altar of a church some three kilometers northwest of Jerusalem’s Old City. Burial under the altar is reserved for only the most honored individuals.

This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority as they were excavating the Khirbat el-Masani’ site ahead of construction work near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo in 2016-2017.

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