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Tom Metcalfe

'A huge surprise': 1,500-year-old church found next to Zoroastrianism place of worship in Iraq

Birds-eye-view of the Gird-î Kazhaw archaeological site near a modern town.

About 1,500 years ago, early Christian monks and adherents of the Persian religion Zoroastrianism lived together without conflict in northern Iraq, according to a new study.

This wasn't the only place where Zoroastrians mingled with people of other faiths; a 2,000-year-old sanctuary discovered in modern Georgia reveals a mixture of Zoroastrian beliefs and those of other religions, another study reports.

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