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1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic'

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Excavations of a Byzantine monastery at Khirbat el-Masani , northwest of Jerusalem , revealed a fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in chains.

The person who had practiced religious bodily punishment was female, researchers say.

The use of chains by male ascetics is widely documented, but it's rarer to find accounts of women using chains in the same way.