A “widow’s mite” coin from Mark 12:42-43.

The artifacts left by the Early Christians in the first three centuries of Christian history are important because they tell us who the original Christians were, how they lived, what they taught, and why they behaved the way they did.

The Christian artifacts found in Israel, Italy, Greece, and Turkey are valuable to us today because they not only verify how the first Christians lived, but they also verify the written history of original Christianity in what we call the “New Testament” part of the Bible today.

Following is a gallery of photographs of Early Christian artifacts from Jerusalem and Rome.  Some of these same types of artifacts are mentioned in the New Testament and help confirm the events recorded in its pages.  (Early Christian symbols are in a separate gallery on this blog.)

Here are the photos with captions.  Click the photos to enlarge them and see the captions.

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