Dei som trur kyrkjekunst er ei sein romersk-katolsk form for avgudsdyrking får eit stadig større forklaringsproblem dess fleire kyrkjer frå tidleg kristen tid som vert framgravne. Sist ute er ei nyoppdaga kyrkje frå 300-talet i Bawit i Egypt der kunst dekkjer alle veggar. Ein heil vegg er dedikert til jomfru Maria og inkarnasjonen.
When I asked Dr. Boutros where the team discovered art, he responded with one word – “everywhere.” “It must have been really very beautiful,” he added. “Not only because of this world of monastic visions and colors, because of the architecture.” The vaults and domes “were all plastered in white.”The archaeologists cannot release pictures of the new finds until they are published in a scholarly format. Dr. Boutros explained that on one wall there would be a depiction of the “Life of Mary, the theme of Joseph, the trip to Bethlehem, the nativity, the shepherds and the kings, the Wisemen, the Virgin Mary sitting on the throne».
