'Like a greeting from Christian pilgrims': Archaeologists find 1,500-yr-old Church wall in Negev

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 23 (ANI/TPS): Israel archaeologists excavating an area of a Negev town slated for expansion discovered a 1,500-year-old Byzantine era church wall with a drawing of a ship, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday.

"This discovery is like a greeting from Christian pilgrims who arrived by ship at the Gaza port," said excavation directors Oren Shmueli, Dr. Elena Kogan-Zehavi, and Dr. Noe