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A city recently announced the discovery of a gilded Christian artifact dating back to the Early Middle Ages. In a statement ...

"The cross was very much not yet a Christian symbol, it was simply dividing that ... with crosses have cropped up consistently through history, Professor von Guttner Sporzynski said.