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Graffiti or homage? Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses

Israel Church of the Holy Sepulchre Father Samuel Aghoyan

Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Crosses etched in mysterious abundance across the walls of Christianity’s most sacred church were long assumed to be graffiti, but they may be the work of mediaeval masons paid to carve them by pilgrims, research suggests. Revered in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy […]