A few days ago, the Palestinian committee restoring the Basilica of the Nativity of Bethlehem announced they had found a “baptismal font”. The discovery took place during the works that have been going on for more than five years, carried out by the Italian firm of Piacenti S.p.a. The archaeologist Elisa Frosi of the Piacenti team described the operations and the phases of the work as follows: “In a restoration project, we always start with a historical study of the […]
