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Spanish discovery suggests Roman era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue Oil lamp fragments point to presence of previously unknown Jewish population in Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo 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. 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. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-discovery-suggests-roman-era-church-may-have-been-a-synagogue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu