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In reply to the discussion: Archaeologists believe they've found cross of Jesus of Nazareth [View all]petronius
(26,611 posts)actually said - she may have been announcing and discussing the find in Turkish, after all. (Note: the video wouldn't play for me; did the actual finder unequivocally make the 'True Cross' claim?)
On the one hand, if she really said something like "we've found a piece of the True Cross," then that is terrible archaeology. Finding an unprovenanced piece of wood in a chest belonging to an unknown person in a church built 660 years after the crucifixion of a highly-mythologized individual, and concluding that piece of wood is therefore from the execution of that person is faith, not science.
On the other hand, if she said that they found a piece of wood, in a context that suggests it was regarded as a relic, and that finding provides insight into religious practices and interactions in 7th Century Turkey, then that would be an interesting and scholarly statement.
It certainly possible that she's one of those pseudo-scientists, akin the YECs for example, that goes around looking to 'prove' her faith, but I've read enough journalistic misinterpretations of scientific findings to think it's at least equally possible that her claim has been exaggerated...