In The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional place of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, restoration means archaeology. Starting in early 2022, the church began a two-year project to restore and repair pavement stones throughout the complex, as well as to install updated plumbing, electrical, and safety systems. During the project, much of the church’s floor will be refurbished, allowing a team from the Sapienza University of Rome to study both the floor itself and the archaeological layers beneath. This will be the first time archaeologists have been able to excavate certain sections of the church. Although the pavement […]
