{"id":538019,"date":"2026-07-12T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:34:09","slug":"vatican-ambassador-visits-israel-museums-archaeology-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538019\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican ambassador visits Israel Museum\u2019s archaeology wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/christianworld\/article-898620\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican<\/a> Ambassador to Israel, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, visited the Israel Museum\u2019s Archaeology Department this week together with senior members of the Vatican delegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Lingua was accompanied by Msgr. Nicola Di Ponzio, deputy head of mission; cultural attache Fr. David Steffy; and other members of the Vatican mission.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the delegation toured the exhibition \u201cA Voice from the Desert \u2013 The Great Isaiah Scroll,\u201d which displays some of the most historically significant archaeological artifacts connected to the period of early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/christianworld\/article-901477\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity<\/a>, including rare evidence related to crucifixion during the time of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The ambassador expressed admiration for the museum\u2019s collection and, in particular, for the Great Isaiah Scroll.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation was hosted by Israel Museum Board of Directors chairman Adv. Isaac Molho; museum director-general Prof. Yasha Jacob Grobman; David Mevorach, senior curator in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/archaeology\/article-902117\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Archaeology<\/a> Department; and Hagit Maoz, curator of the Complete Isaiah Scroll.<\/p>\n<p>Lingua was appointed to the role in January by Pope Leo XIV and presented his credentials to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-901986\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Isaac Herzog<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly appointed Vatican Ambassador to Israel, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, visited the Israel Museum\u2019s Archaeology Department this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37916,10827,8742,85,46,43,86286,14655,43311],"class_list":["post-538019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ambassador","tag-archeology","tag-christianity","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-pope","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}