1,700 year old cemetery found in Syria


	1,700 year old cemetery found in Syria

pokkets

11-16-2007 3:59 AM

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syria, cemetery, roman, history, archaeology

pokkets says:

Two days earlier an older cemetery was found in the ruins of Palmyra,which lies between this discovery, and Damascus

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11-19-2007 2:44 PM

jussyRider

This is so cool. The language that Christ spoke was Aramaic and the most accurate translation of the New Testament comes from the Syrian Christians. ...per B. G. Wilkinson's "Truth Triumphant"

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