Spanish discovery suggests Roman era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue

<p>Oil lamp fragments point to presence of previously unknown Jewish population in Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo</p><p>Seventeen centuries after they last burned, a handful of broken oil lamps could shed light on a small and long-vanished Jewish community that lived in southern Spain in the late Roman era as the old gods were being snuffed out by Christianity.</p><p>Archaeologists excavating the Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo, whose ruins lie near the present-day Andalucían town of Linares, have uncovered evidence of an apparent Jewish presence there in the late fourth or early fifth century AD.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-discovery-suggests-roman-era-church-may-have-been-a-synagogue">Continue reading...</a>