[SJackson]

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period when Jerusalem became a Christian city

Christian city? Next they're going to claim Jews lived there too. The palestinians need to build a Mosque over this site right away.

[rdl6989]

Ping. This a great find.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

the Madaba Map – an ancient mosaic map from the sixth century

http://images.google.com/images?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=Madaba+Map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=KWN1S7HfAYGknQfomJm3CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CCMQsAQwBA

[Quix]

WONDERFUL.

THANKS.

I expect lots of interesting discoveries in this END TIMES era.

[hennie pennie]

This is really kewl!

[JimRed]

The map, from the Byzantine period, is the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Land of Israel.

But...but...bbbbutt....wait; wasn't it Palestine instead of Israel? < /sarc >

[Karliner]

Here's a nice site of the mosaic and the transliteration to English: Madaba Mosaic map

[Cvengr]

When I first read the headline, I mistook the article to imply a map of Jerusalem attributed to Moses had been found, as in a Mosaic Map. It appears though to only be a mosaic map instead.

[caww]

Oh this is very interesting...I enlarged the images and I wish I could translate the writings...alas zip ability! The whole image is fabulous...Great find! Thanks for posting this.