On an island in Bahrain, archaeologists and historians are at work discovering relics that will show the story of Christian homes in the kingdom before the spread of Islam.
A group of Bahraini and British specialists is digging where once may have been a monastery or an old Christian bishop’s home from the sixth century, under a 300-year-old mosque in a Muslim cemetery on Bahrain’s Muharraq island.
“It will be most exciting for the country to discover more concrete evidence of a Christian presence that dates back to the sixth and eighth centuries AD below a 300-year-old mosque,” Salman Almahari, manager of Antiquities and Museums of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities in the archaeology and museums executive, updated The National in a meeting.