‘No one before 2005 would have ever dreamed we would have found something as beautiful and significant as this. What’s around the corner?’
By Joe Kovacs
While Christians in recent years have been hungering for Bible-related food such as the popular series, “The Chosen,” there is now real-life evidence of what life was truly like for early Christians, and it’s on display in America, drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
It’s called the Megiddo Mosaic, a third-century artwork unearthed beneath a prison floor in Israel between 2003 and 2005. It once beautified a private chapel in what is considered the earliest known Christian house of prayer, and is the earliest physical proclamation of Jesus Christ’s divinity.
“It is truly the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls,” said Carlos Campo, CEO of the Museum of the Bible.
The 581-square-foot mosaic is being called a masterpiece of early Christian art.
It features an 1,800-year-old Greek inscription reading: “The god-loving Akeptous has offered the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial.”