The experts who look at the photos write "All what I can say at this stage is that if the deep carvings are man made and if they are part of a sort of structure ...this is a very large building. Bearing in mind some maps of the late 15th and early 16th century the subsidence that has totally submerged that esplanade must be a relatively recent phenomenon of the last 400 years."
Who isn't excited by this stuff? I can't imagine. It might well be a building that doesn't date from before the Common Era. But even still it seems impossible to believe that it wouldn't have something to do with St. Mark. As I noted many times here before this area was always claimed by the Christians. It isn't going to turn out to be a warehouse or a sausage factory, that's for sure ...
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."