The Interfax-Religion website reports today (November 10, 2010) that Russian archeologists have discovered what appears to be a former monastery in Jericho.
"Here we have discovered a complex of Byzantium buildings that dates back six or seven centuries. Perhaps it is remains of a monastery with multicolored mosaics," director of the Archeology Institute and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay Makarov said at a press conference today.
Excavations in Jericho were organized by the Russian Presidential Administration in connection with building a Russian museum and park complex and yard face-lift.
As Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had said earlier, the Russian Cultural Center in Jericho will become "the first major project in the Holy Land in the third millennium that was actively taken up by the Russian state."
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