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Article: Judeo-Christian ties buried in Rome.(catacombs carbon dating reveals ancient time)(Brief Article)
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- July 30, 2005
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The walls of one of ancient Rome's huge underground cemeteries have yielded surprising clues about links between two major religions. Rather than arising as a strictly Christian tradition, as many researchers and scholars had assumed, subterranean graveyards, known as catacombs, originated in Rome's Jewish community more than 100 years before Chris tians began to build similar structures, say Leonard V. Rutgers of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and his coworkers.
Early Christians apparently drew on Jewish influences in catacomb construction, the investigators argue in the July 21 Nature.
Rutgers' group measured the abundance of specific carbon ...
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