Archaeologists in Frankfurt (Main) have uncovered a groundbreaking historical artifact: a silver amulet believed to be the oldest Christian document north of the Alps. The find sheds new light on early Christianity during the Roman Empire and has sparked widespread excitement among historians and researchers.

In 2018, researchers found a tiny silver amulet in an ancient Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany. The 1.4-inch-long artifact contained a roll of foil—a tiny scroll, which researchers didn’t dare remove for fear of breaking it apart.

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German archaeologists spent years trying to read a fragile silver scroll found inside the amulet. They finally succeeded.

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text hidden within a silver amulet from the third century A.

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet unearthed in a Roman-era German cemetery, bearing early Christian prayers, has been hailed as the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The Latin inscription,