Archaeologists Discover What Jesus Really Looks Like

A major breakthrough in the Biblical archaeology, which claimed Jesus doesn’t look like as everybody thinks.

Recently, archaeologists from the University of Haifa have found a 1500-year-old painting of Jesus Christ, which is very different from our thinking.

Archaeologists found this 1500-year-old painting in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Art historian Emma Maayan-Fanar is the one who noticed this.

According to archaeologists, the gospel never defined what Jesus Christ looked like. However, Westerners always pictured Jesus Christ as a man with long hair and a beard, which could be just our imagination...

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Old Bibles and scriptures depicting biblical times are a very important piece of history, something that millions of people live their lives by. Throughout history, many of these historical and religious texts have been lost (mainly due to war). Many of them held important information that is now either forgotten or left in the past and hidden from Christian society.

This is why such items are quite valuable, especially on the black market where many of them can be found, or stolen from sacred places.

Since the 10th century, contrabandists have been after historical and particularly religious artifacts, but Turkish officials have been able to identify and apprehend a group of organized criminals who have been stealing priceless historical and religious artifacts for years. In Tokat, their hiding place was found in 2015. The items discovered in their hoard were intended to be illegally exported from the nation and sold for astronomical sums of money.

Along with other diamonds, swords, and paintings, a severely tattered and misaligned bible was discovered. Before authorities realized that each and every one of the Bible’s pages was made of gold, it didn’t appear that the book itself was particularly valuable.

The Bible appears to be at least 1000 years old, according to specialists who have examined it more closely to determine its age. This has been noted because it was written in an ancient form of Assyrian (Suresh), a language that had been steadily dying since the fifth century.

A video of the bible being opened and inspected by experts was also shown:

Many historical artifacts disappear as a result of these smugglers. This is a result of the demand for antiques produced by private collectors who would even pay thieves to take the items for them. This is true despite the fact that, despite the absurd offers that may be made, the majority of the rare historical items in museums are not available for purchase.

The Turkish government is still looking for information on where exactly this piece came from—was it a museum find or perhaps a recent historical find? It is so uncommon that it raises a lot of questions, based on its actual authenticity from not only being a fake but if it was forged to look as if a Bible from 1000 years ago.

Due to constantly being in the sunlight, the only outline of this painting was visible. The painting looks like a young prolonged-faced man with short curly hair and a long nose.

In which the researchers claimed this painting was from the sixth century A.D., which is about 1500 years old.

Archaeologists claim this could be the first-ever painting to tell us what Jesus looks like.

See below, a 1500-year-old painting of Jesus Christ discovered in an ancient Israeli desert church.

Archaeologists excavating a famous Aztec "tower of skulls" in Mexico City discovered a new section with 119 human remains.

According to CNN’s Hollie Silverman, the discovery boosts the total number of skulls displayed in the late 15th-century edifice known as Huey Tzompantli to more than 600.

The tower, unearthed five years ago by archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), is thought to be one of seven that previously stood in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.

It’s close to the ruins of the Templo Mayor, a 14th- and 15th-century religious structure devoted to the war deity Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc.

The fresh skulls, discovered in the tower’s eastern part, comprise at least three children’s craniums. Archaeologists recognized the bones based on their size and tooth development.

Previously, researchers assumed that the skulls in the building belonged to vanquished male fighters, but new research reveals that some belonged to women and children, as Reuters reported in 2017.

"Although we can’t tell how many of these people were fighters, possibly some were prisoners intended for sacrifice rites," archaeologist Barrera Rodrguez said in an INAH release.

"We know they were all made sacrosanct." That is, they were transformed into presents for the gods or even personifications of the deities, for which they were adorned and treated as such."

According to J. Weston Phippen’s 2017 Atlantic article, the Aztecs displayed victims’ skulls in smaller racks throughout Tenochtitlan before transporting them to the bigger Huey Tzompantli edifice. The lime-bonded bones were arranged into a "huge inner-circle that raise[d] and widen[ed] in a succession of rings."

While the tower may appear terrifying to contemporary eyes, INAH explains that Mesoamericans saw the ceremonial sacrifice that built it as a method of keeping the gods alive and preventing the cosmos from being destroyed.

"This vision, inexplicable to our religious system," the statement reads, "makes the Huey Tzompantli a building of life rather than death."

Archaeologists believe the tower, which spans around 16.4 feet in diameter, was erected in three phases between 1486 and 1502 during the Tlatoani Ahuzotl kingdom. The ninth Aztec ruler, Ahuzotl, led the empire in conquering sections of modern-day Guatemala as well as lands around the Gulf of Mexico.

During his rule, the Aztecs’ realm expanded to its greatest extent, and Tenochtitlan expanded greatly as well. Ahuzotl erected Malinalco’s magnificent temple, installed a new aqueduct to feed the city, and established a powerful administration. Accounts claim that as many as 20,000 prisoners of war were sacrificed during the dedication of the new temple in 1487, however, this figure is debatable.

In chronicles regarding their conquest of the area, Spanish conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Bernal Daz del Castillo, and Andrés de Tapia documented the Aztecs’ skull racks. According to J. Francisco De Anda Corral of El Economista, de Tapia stated that the Aztecs placed tens of thousands of skulls "on a gigantic theater constructed of lime and stone, and on its stairs were numerous heads of the deceased embedded in the lime with the fangs pointing outward."