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The Roman Empress St Helena [30min]

Around AD 325, an elderly woman endured a laborious journey to Jerusalem and made perhaps the greatest archaeological find of all time. Historian Malcolm Billings goes on the mysterious trail of Roman Empress St Helena. He asks whether she was really the daughter of Old King Cole, or rather a Turkish lady of the night, and whether it was possible that she genuinely found the True Cross of Christ.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The Greatest Archaeologist of Them All"