Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181226:08:25:00
>> but the sight of christ's passion is no more. jerusalem is now an outpost of the roman empire, renamed elia capataline. >> when helena entered the city of jerusalem, it's likely to have been a shell of its former glorious self in the early first century a.d. >> you have to realize that ancient cities are absolutely chaotic. >> we can imagine that she's sort of overwhelmed by the tangible reality of life in the ancient world. it was full of sounds and noises, and it was dirty. >> jerusalem is now a pagan city. 200 years before, a jewish uprising was crushed by rome. >> jews were banned from ...