The Megiddo Church, believed to have been built in the 3rd century. Now it houses a prison. Some of the remains of the church were first discovered by the prisoners who stayed in there. Then archaeologists from Tel Aviv University excavated the important remains of the Megiddo Church. It resulted in discovering of the huge mosaics depicting the figure of the fish and Greek inscriptions - the early symbols of Christianity. According to one insctiption a woman named Akeptous donated a table to the church as an altar.
See:
- Lawler, Andrew. “First Churches of the Jesus Cult.” Archaeology, vol. 60, no. 5, 2007, pp. 46–51. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41780287. Accessed 24 Jan. 2023.
- Noah Wiener: " Early Bronze Age: Megiddo's Great Temple and the Birth of Urban Culture in the Levant" Bible History Daily, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2014
- Eric H. Cline: The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. University of Michigan Press, 2002
- K. Radner, C. Provinz., in: Reallexikon der Assyriologie, tom XI (Prinz, Prinzessin - Samug), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2006-2008, pp. 42-68.
- Israeli Prisoners Dig Their Way to Early Christianity - The New York Times (nytimes.com)-https://www.nytimes.com/.../israeli-prisoners-dig-their-way-to-early-christianity.html
- home.planet.nl/~slofs018/Megiddo.htm