So far, the team has uncovered 100 coins, 27 small rock crystals, 59 Roman shoe nails, a brooch and a fragment of a leaf-shaped votive plaque. Photo of the excavation site and the Roman coin ...

The coins Habicht examines for his book, Noble said, are hardly evidence of a papal cover-up. "That coin is John VIII," which Habicht would have known if he had looked up the definitive literature ...