German cathedral’s murals discovered to be 1,000-years-old aleteia.org

These depictions of John the Baptist are the earliest examples of medieval Christian art north of the Alps.

Researchers at Germany’s Augsburg Cathedral discovered that a series of murals adorning the cathedral walls are much older than they thought.

The images, which are time-worn and hard to make out, were revealed to be from the 11th century. At nearly 1,000 years-old, this makes them the oldest medieval Christian works of art ever to be found north of the Alps…

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